My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
JOHN OF THE CROSSIt is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
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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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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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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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My sole occupation is love.
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The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
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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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Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.
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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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Who teaches the soul if not God?
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
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