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Spiritual Canticle
St. John of the Cross

1 "The soul lives where it loves rather than where it breathes."

2 "Have charity, which is the bond of perfection."

3 "Self knowledge is the first thing that the soul must achieve in order to come to the knowledge of God."

4 "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."

5 "You yourself are the lodging wherein God dwells, and the closet and hiding-place wherein He is hidden."

6 "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."

7 "The health of the soul is the love of God."

8 "As St. John says, perfect love casts out all fear. (1 John 4:18)"

9 "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."

10 "God is never absent from the soul."

11 "God created all things,…making them beauteous with marvellous orderliness and unfailing interdependence."

12 "The way to seek God is ever to be doing good in God."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite