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 CROSSWhere there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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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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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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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!
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Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
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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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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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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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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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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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