The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
JOHN OF THE CROSS
JOHN OF THE CROSS
John of the Cross on purity
John of the Cross72 quotes“The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.”
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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross Who teaches the soul if not God?
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross 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.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross 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.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross God leads every soul by a separate path.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross 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.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross 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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Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
Alfred NobelAlfred Nobel Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
Alexander FlemingAlexander Fleming The way you love is magic in its purest form.
LoreleiLorelei When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Christopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
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