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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.

John of the Cross

If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Bird Lose Opportunity Yourself
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Devotion Difficult God Myself Tough
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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Agreement Remember Silence
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.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Desire Knowledge Possession Reach Satisfaction
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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Earth God Human Judgement Life Love Possession Success
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Avoid Goodness Prayer
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Glory God Seek
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek Yourself
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Purity Carry Training Understand
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Detachment Feeling God Greatness Love Suffering
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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Better Love Necessary
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.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Delight Desire Learning Possession Spiritual True Yourself
In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Fear Flower Love Mountain Myself Search Wild
The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
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Feed Flow Heaven Life
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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Growth Love Soul Walk
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.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Care Intellectual Man Memories See Virtue

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