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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

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 soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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Growth Love Soul Walk
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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Easy God Road Suffering Travel Willing
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
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Glory God Seek
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
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
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.
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Darkness Faith Forget God Himself Leaving Live Protection Wrong
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
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
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Avoid Goodness Prayer
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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Charity End Judgement Life
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
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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Conscience Desire God Performance Purity Small Work
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
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Account Goodness Peace Service Yourself
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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Better Love Necessary
God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Darkness God Life Man Night
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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Desire Knowledge Possession Reach Satisfaction

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

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