John of the Cross Quotes on Devotion
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There He taught me the science full of sweetness. And there I gave to Him Myself without reserve; There I promised to be His bride. ~ 27
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My sole occupation is love. All my occupation now is the practice of the love of God, all the powers of soul and body, memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, the desires of spirit and of sense, all work in and by love. All I do is done in love; all I suffer, I suffer in the sweetness of love.
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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.
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One human thought alone is worth more than the entire world, hence God alone is worthy of it.
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The soul that desires God to surrender himself to it entirely must surrender itself entirely to him without keeping anything for itself.