God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
JOHN OF THE CROSSHe who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.
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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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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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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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In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.
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Faith is the union of God and the soul.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!
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Do not let your “eye” be drawn by the false “beacon lamps” -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.
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The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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