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SPIRITUAL CANTICLE
St. John of the Cross
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"God created all things,…making them beauteous with marvellous orderliness and unfailing interdependence."
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"Self knowledge is the first thing that the soul must achieve in order to come to the knowledge of God."
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"Have charity, which is the bond of perfection."
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"The way to seek God is ever to be doing good in God."
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"The health of the soul is the love of God."
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"You yourself are the lodging wherein God dwells, and the closet and hiding-place wherein He is hidden."
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"The soul lives where it loves rather than where it breathes."
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"The soul is able to see a marvellous fitness and disposition of the wisdom of God in the diversities of all His creatures and works….each after its manner testifies to that which God is in it."
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"God is never absent from the soul."
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"It is to be observed that the Word, the Son of God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, is hidden, in essence and in presence, in the inmost being of the soul."
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"God…is present, not only in the best and holiest souls, but also in all other creatures; for by this presence He gives them life and being….this presence is never lacking in the soul."
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"As St. John says, perfect love casts out all fear. (1 John 4:18)"
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