At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
JOHN OF THE CROSSWhen there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
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Who teaches the soul if not God?
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My sole occupation is love.
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.
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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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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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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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