The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
JOHN OF THE CROSSLive as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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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 reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.
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My sole occupation is love.
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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
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In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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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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He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
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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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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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Silence is God’s first language.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light.
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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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