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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
Become

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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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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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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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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
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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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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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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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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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I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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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They say, God told me, or God replied to me. And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
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Silence is God's first language.
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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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