He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
JOHN OF THE CROSSThe purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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Silence is God’s first language.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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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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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light.
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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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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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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
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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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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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