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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

John of the Cross

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
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Detachment Feeling God Greatness Love Suffering
Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.
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Complain Fragile Himself Humble Listening Talk
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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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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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Body Myself Separate Soul Spirit
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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Darkness God Night River Soul
If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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Learning Perfection Progress Yourself
The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
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Feed Flow Heaven Life
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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Darkness Faith Himself Light Man Night Way
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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Charity End Judgement Life
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
Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Eyes Myself See
Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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Desire Gratitude Myself
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
My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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Dry Forget Spirit Yourself

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