Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
JOHN OF THE CROSSNot to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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They say, “God told me”, or “God replied to me”. And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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My sole occupation is love.
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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.
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There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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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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He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
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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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In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.
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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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