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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.

John of the Cross

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
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Hands Himself Lose Man Opportunity Recovery
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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Growth Love Soul Walk
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
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Avoid Goodness Prayer
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
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Faith God Soul
The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.
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Easy God Road Suffering Travel Willing
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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Devotion Difficult God Myself Tough
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
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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Conscience Desire God Performance Purity Small Work
When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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Draw Love
Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Eyes Myself See
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
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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God Learning Live Prosperity Sin Walk Yourself
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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Acceptance Obedience Reason Sacrifice
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek
Silence is God’s first language.
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God Language One Liner Silence
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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Charity End Judgement Life

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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