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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

John of the Cross

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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Escape Exercise Hands Hard Himself Prayer Spiritual
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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God Learning Live Prosperity Sin Walk Yourself
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Evening Judgment Life Love Ourselves
God leads every soul by a separate path.
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God Leadership Path Separate
In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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Enlightenment Instruction Sorrow Strength Suffering Yourself
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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Desire Knowledge Possession Reach Satisfaction
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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Bird Lose Opportunity Yourself
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
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Avoid Goodness Prayer
The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light.
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Divine Light Perfection Soul Window
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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Purity Carry Training Understand
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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Acceptance Obedience Reason Sacrifice
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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Care God Journey Quiet Soul
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.
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Excellence Goodness Love Remember Value
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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Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek Yourself
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.
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Love Peaceful Secret Soul Spirit
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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Darkness Endurance Greatness Light Preparation
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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Failure Greatness Heart Love
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
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Faith God Soul
Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.
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Desire Difficult Give Up God Love Prayer Reason Satisfaction Soul
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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Conscience Desire God Performance Purity Small Work
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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Charity End Judgement Life
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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Devotion Difficult God Myself Tough
All the powers of soul and body, memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, the desires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.
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Body Desire Love Memories Power Soul Work
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
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Clarity Confession Purity Sin Strive
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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Love Yourself
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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Better Love Necessary

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

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