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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.

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
Forgets
Dry
Feed
Forget
Spirit
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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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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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 search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.
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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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For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.
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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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Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
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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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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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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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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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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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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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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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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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