Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
JOHN OF THE CROSSSilence is God’s first language.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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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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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
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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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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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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 leads every soul by a separate path.
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
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The soul that journey’s to God, but doesn’t shake off it’s cares and quiet it’s appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
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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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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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Who teaches the soul if not God?
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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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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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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
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There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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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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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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