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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.

John of the Cross

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

Excellence Goodness Love Remember Value
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
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
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
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
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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Healing Leadership Meditation Ourselves Spirit Wound
My sole occupation is love.
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Love Occupation One Liner
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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Darkness Faith Himself Light Man Night Way
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Deep God Love Transformation
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
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
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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Growth Love Soul Walk
Silence is God’s first language.
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God Language One Liner Silence
Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Hurt Need Word Worth
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
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

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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