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The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

John of the Cross

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
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God Learning Live Prosperity Sin Walk Yourself
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
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Faith God Soul
See 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.
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Adversity God Joy Judgement Sadness World
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.
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Excellence Goodness Love Remember Value
Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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Hurt Need Word Worth
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
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God Human Live World Yourself
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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Growth Love Soul Walk
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
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Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek Yourself
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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Acceptance Obedience Reason Sacrifice
Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.
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Courage Goodness Man Path Perseverance Spirit
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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Desire Difficult Give Up God Love Prayer Reason Satisfaction Soul
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.
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Delight Desire Learning Possession Spiritual True Yourself
The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light.
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Divine Light Perfection Soul Window
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
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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Care Intellectual Man Memories See Virtue
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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Purity Carry Training Understand

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