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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross

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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Bird Lose Opportunity Yourself
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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Agreement Remember Silence
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
My sole occupation is love.
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Love Occupation One Liner
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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Love 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
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
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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Purity Carry Training Understand
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
God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Darkness God Life Man Night
The soul that journey’s to God, but doesn’t shake off it’s cares and quiet it’s appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
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Care God Journey Quiet Soul
However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
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God Goodness Need Ourselves Seek Soft Solitude Surprise Talk Wings
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
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Faith God Soul
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Evening Judgment Life Love Ourselves
Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
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Failure Greatness Heart Love
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

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