The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
JOHN OF THE CROSSFaith is the union of God and the soul.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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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.
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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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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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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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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The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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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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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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