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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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
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Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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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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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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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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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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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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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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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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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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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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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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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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