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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

The soul that journey’s to God, but doesn’t shake off it’s cares and quiet it’s appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Care God Journey Quiet Soul
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
In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Enlightenment Instruction Sorrow Strength Suffering Yourself
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Darkness God Night River Soul
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Purity Carry Training Understand
Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Guide Love Myself Night Transformation
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Clarity Confession Purity Sin Strive
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Better Love Necessary
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.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Body Desire Love Memories Power Soul Work
God is a dark night to man in this life.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Darkness God Life Man Night
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Darkness Faith Himself Light Man Night Way
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Agreement Remember Silence
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
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.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Darkness Faith Forget God Himself Leaving Live Protection Wrong
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Beautiful Fall God World
My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Dry Forget Spirit 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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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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