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• Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

  John of the Cross

  Faith, Inspiration, Reading

  "The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross".

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• The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

  John of the Cross

  Song, Holiday, Joy

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• The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.

  John of the Cross

  Suffering, Wish, Use

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• Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.

  John of the Cross

  Dark, Night, Men

  Saint John of the Cross (1979). “The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross”, I C S Publications, Institute of Carmelite Studies

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• God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

  John of the Cross

  Desire, Degrees, Saint

  "The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross".

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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.

  John of the Cross

  Talking, Saint

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• 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.

  John of the Cross

  Love Is, Men, Doe

  Saint John of the Cross (2007). “The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Volume II: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the LIV”, p.341, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

  John of the Cross

  Prayer, Avoiding

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• Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Over You, Desire

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• When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.

  John of the Cross

  Spiritual, Self, Meditation

  "Cántico Espiritual (The Spiritual Canticle)". Book by John of the Cross (Note to Stanza 29, Part 8), 1622.

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• In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

  John of the Cross

  Confidence, Enlightenment, Instruction

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• However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

  John of the Cross

  Perfection, Steps, Forget You

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• God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

  John of the Cross

  Fall, Saint, World

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• 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.

  John of the Cross

  Christian, Adversity, Joy

  St John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross”, p.144, ICS Publications

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• 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.

  John of the Cross

  Complaining, Speak, Should

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• Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

  John of the Cross

  Heart, World, May

  St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.96, ICS Publications

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• My sole occupation is love.

  John of the Cross

  Life, Love Life, Occupation

  St. John of the Cross (2013). “The Essential St. John of the Cross”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

  John of the Cross

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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• The centre of the soul is God; and, when the soul has attained to Him according to the whole capacity of its being, which is the strength and virtue of the soul, it will have reached the last and the deep centre of the soul, which will be when with all its powers it loves and understands and enjoys God.

  John of the Cross

  Karma, Soul, Lasts

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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.

  John of the Cross

  Journey, Soul, Saint

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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

  Love, Life, Feelings

  St John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross”, p.149, ICS Publications

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• There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.

  John of the Cross

  Life, Love Life

  St. John of the Cross (2013). “The Essential St. John of the Cross”, p.619, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith is the union of God and the soul.

  John of the Cross

  Soul, Unions

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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

  Hurt, Order, Needs

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• Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

  John of the Cross

  Men, Divine Wisdom, Soul

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