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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
John of the Cross
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John of the Cross
Age: 49 †
Born: 1542
Born: June 24
Died: 1591
Died: December 14
Carmelite Friar
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Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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The centre of the soul is God and, when the soul has attained to Him according to the whole capacity of its being, which is the strength and virtue of the soul, it will have reached the last and the deep centre of the soul, which will be when with all its powers it loves and understands and enjoys God.
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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
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If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away you will never get it back.
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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.
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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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Silence is God's first language.
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Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.
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My sole occupation is love.
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Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.
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In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
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