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.
JOHN OF THE CROSSHe who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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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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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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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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He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
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The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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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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Silence is God’s first language.
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My sole occupation is love.
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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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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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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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Who teaches the soul if not God?
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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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