Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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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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In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
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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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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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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
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My sole occupation is love.
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If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light.
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See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
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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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Silence is God’s first language.
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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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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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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