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 CROSSSee 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.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.
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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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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on 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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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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Who teaches the soul if not God?
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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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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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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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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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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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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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.
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Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.
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He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
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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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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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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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