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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.

John of the Cross

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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Divine Light Perfection Soul Window
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
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Clarity Confession Purity Sin Strive
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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Charity End Judgement Life
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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Purity Carry Training Understand
Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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Advice Faith Ourselves
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
In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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Enlightenment Instruction Sorrow Strength Suffering Yourself
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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Devotion Difficult God Myself Tough
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Evening Judgment Life Love Ourselves
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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Deep God Love Transformation
He 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.
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Escape Exercise Hands Hard Himself Prayer Spiritual
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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Beautiful Fall God World
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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Guide Love Myself Night Transformation
God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Darkness God Life Man Night
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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Love Yourself
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

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