Who teaches the soul if not God?
JOHN OF THE CROSSGod desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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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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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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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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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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Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.
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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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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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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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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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 leads every soul by a separate path.
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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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The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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My sole occupation is love.
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Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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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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If it were given to a man to see virtue’s reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
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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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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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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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