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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

John of the Cross

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
Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Body Myself Separate Soul Spirit
They say, “God told me”, or “God replied to me”. And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
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God Myself Talk Time
Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Eyes Myself See
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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Darkness God Night River Soul
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
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Glory God Seek
If it were given to a man to see virtue’s reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
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Care Intellectual Man Memories See Virtue
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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Love Yourself
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
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Faith God Soul
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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Darkness Endurance Greatness Light Preparation
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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Greatness Live Remark Silence Wisdom
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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Bird Lose Opportunity Yourself
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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Body Desire Love Memories Power Soul Work
Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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Advice Faith Ourselves
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
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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Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek Yourself

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

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