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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

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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
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
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
Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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Desire Gratitude Myself
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
When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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Draw Love
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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Darkness Endurance Greatness Light Preparation
If it were given to a man to see virtue’s reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
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Care Intellectual Man Memories See Virtue
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Evening Judgment Life Love Ourselves
If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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Learning Perfection Progress Yourself
Who teaches the soul if not God?
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God Soul Spiritual Teaching
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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God Learning Live Prosperity Sin Walk Yourself
He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
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Hide Himself Love Shame World
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
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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Darkness God Night River Soul
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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Better Love Necessary

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