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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

John of the Cross

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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Conscience Desire God Performance Purity Small Work
God leads every soul by a separate path.
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God Leadership Path Separate
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
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
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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Desire Knowledge Possession Reach Satisfaction
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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Easy God Road Suffering Travel Willing
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
Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.
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Darkness Faith Forget God Himself Leaving Live Protection Wrong
Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Body Myself Separate Soul Spirit
Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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Hurt Need Word Worth
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
Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.
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Desire Difficult Give Up God Love Prayer Reason Satisfaction Soul
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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Account Goodness Peace Service Yourself
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
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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Care God Journey Quiet Soul
He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
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Hide Himself Love Shame 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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