In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
JOHN OF THE CROSSIn tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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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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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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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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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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Who teaches the soul if not God?
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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Silence is God’s first language.
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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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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.
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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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My sole occupation is love.
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Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
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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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