"If you do not learn to deny yourself,……" — John of the Cross
"If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection."
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63 Quotes by John of the Cross
John of the Cross has 63 quotes on this site.
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect,…
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He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will…
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The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here…
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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the…
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
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In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence,…
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Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul…
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The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed...
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
— Richard Armour
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when…
— Drew Barrymore
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
— Joseph Addison
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact…
— Joseph Addison
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I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to…
— Juliette Binoche
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the…
— Kobe Bryant
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
— James Buchan
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
— John Burroughs
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