In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
JOHN OF THE CROSSHe who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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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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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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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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My sole occupation is love.
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Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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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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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 eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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