God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
JOHN OF THE CROSSTake 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.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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He 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.
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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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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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our 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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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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Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
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In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light.
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