In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
JOHN OF THE CROSSIt 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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The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
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Who teaches the soul if not God?
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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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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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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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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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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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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
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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.
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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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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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