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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

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
Catholic Priest
Poet
Saint
Writer
Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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Soul
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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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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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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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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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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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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.
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Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.
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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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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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Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.
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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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My sole occupation is love.
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The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself...this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is transformed in love.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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