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All the powers of soul and body, memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, the desires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

John of the Cross

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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Delight Desire Learning Possession Spiritual True Yourself
If it were given to a man to see virtue’s reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
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Care Intellectual Man Memories See Virtue
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
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Alone Burn Cold Growth Hot Master Soul Virtue
If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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Learning Perfection Progress Yourself
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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God Myself Talk Time
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Evening Judgment Life Love Ourselves
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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Darkness Endurance Greatness Light Preparation
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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Love Peaceful Secret Soul Spirit
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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Healing Leadership Meditation Ourselves Spirit Wound
Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
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God Learning Live Prosperity Sin Walk Yourself
He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
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Hide Himself Love Shame World
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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Acceptance Obedience Reason Sacrifice
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
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Faith God Soul
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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Conscience Desire God Performance Purity Small Work
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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Complain Fragile Himself Humble Listening Talk
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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Darkness Faith Himself Light Man Night Way

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