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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

John of the Cross

Who teaches the soul if not God?
JOHN OF THE CROSS

God Soul Spiritual Teaching
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
Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Eyes Myself See
My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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Dry Forget Spirit Yourself
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
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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God Human Live World 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
In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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Enlightenment Instruction Sorrow Strength Suffering Yourself
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.
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Excellence Goodness Love Remember Value
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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Beautiful Fall God 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
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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Body Desire Love Memories Power Soul Work
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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God Goodness Need Ourselves Seek Soft Solitude Surprise Talk Wings
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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Deep God Love Transformation
If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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Learning Perfection Progress Yourself
When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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Draw Love

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

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