He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
JOHN OF THE CROSSThe virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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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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The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
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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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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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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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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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Who teaches the soul if not God?
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
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It 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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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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