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.
JOHN OF THE CROSSLive 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.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.
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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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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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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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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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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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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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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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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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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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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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