He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
JOHN OF THE CROSSTake 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.
More John of the Cross Quotes
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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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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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My sole occupation is love.
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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
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There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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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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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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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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