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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.

John of the Cross

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
Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Body Myself Separate Soul Spirit
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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Agreement Remember Silence
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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Better Love Necessary
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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God Myself Talk Time
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
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
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
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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Healing Leadership Meditation Ourselves Spirit Wound
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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Guide Love Myself Night Transformation
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
The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.
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Easy God Road Suffering Travel Willing
Who teaches the soul if not God?
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God Soul Spiritual Teaching
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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Deep God Love Transformation
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
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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Beautiful Fall God World

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