Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
JOHN OF THE CROSSIn tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
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Silence is God’s first language.
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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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My sole occupation is love.
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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
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Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
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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.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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