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A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

John of the Cross

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.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

God Learning Live Prosperity Sin Walk Yourself
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek 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
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
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Alone Burn Cold Growth Hot Master Soul Virtue
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
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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Darkness God Night River Soul
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
God leads every soul by a separate path.
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God Leadership Path Separate
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.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Desire Knowledge Possession Reach Satisfaction
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
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
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
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Clarity Confession Purity Sin Strive
Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.
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Darkness Faith Forget God Himself Leaving Live Protection Wrong
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.
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Love Peaceful Secret Soul Spirit
The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Happiness Holiday Joy Love Service Soul

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

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