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.
JOHN OF THE CROSSThere is nothing better or more necessary than love.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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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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Silence is God’s first language.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light.
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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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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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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Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
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The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
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Who teaches the soul if not God?
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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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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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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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