Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
JOHN OF THE CROSSWhere there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
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There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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My sole occupation is love.
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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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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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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 passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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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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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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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
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