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Paul of the Cross

Paul of the Cross (3 January 1694 – 18 October 1775) was an Italian mystic, and founder of the Passionists.

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God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of directing souls. You will suffer also in another way. Love will be your executioner. Let it do its work; it knows how. In this martyrdom we have need of extraordinary grace and strength; but God will bestow it. Without this divine help it would be impossible to bear up.

Art, Grace, Help, Soul, Strength, Way

Do you know why God subjects you to so many miseries? That He may bestow on you the riches of heaven.

Heaven, Know, May, Miseries, Riches, Subjects

Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy of this virtue; be like to angels, and omit no precaution to retain this treasure, which is so easily lost by imprudence. We have this treasure in earthen vessels, says the Apostle.

Angel, Angels, Flower, Lost, Shine, Shining

Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.

Looking, Mercy, Mercy Of God, Merit, Place, Redeemer

The passion of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also an ocean of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish in this ocean. Dive into its depths. No matter how deep you go, you will never reach the bottom.

Ask, Jesus, Ocean, Passion, Reach

Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.

Faithful, Flower, Spring, Taste, Virtue, Winter

You do wrong to complain of your crosses and sufferings. Believe me, you know not what it is to suffer. God preserve you from suffering even one day what has been endured by a certain soul, whose name I must not disclose!

Believe, Crosses, Name, Names, Soul, Suffering

He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

Attachment, Doe, Flesh, Know, Mortify

In uniting yourself to God's will, you take on new life and gather great courage, willingly embracing the cross and kissing His hand even when it chastises you, a hand that reaches out to you in love and has no other intention but your greater spiritual well-being.

Chastises, Gather, Hands, Kissing, Reaches, Spiritual

Meditation on Jesus Christ crucified is a precious balm which sweetens all pains.

Jesus, Meditation, Pain, Pains, Sweetens

Entrust yourself entirely to God. He is a Father and a most loving Father at that, who would rather let heaven and earth collapse than abandon anyone who trusted in him.

Abandon, Earth, Father, God, Heaven

The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. The greatest and most overwhelming work of God's love.

Christ, Divine, Overwhelming, Passion, Work

Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.

Avoid, Failing, Modesty, Purity

Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue.

Account, Flower, Flowers, Garden, Jesus, Make

When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.

Anger, Assaults, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Passion

The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

Cross, Paradise, Saint, Way

Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.

Attachment, Break, Drink, Eager, Refreshing, Water

Make a little bouquet of the sufferings of Jesus and carry them in the bosom of the soul.

Bosom, Bouquet, Jesus, Make, Soul, Suffering

Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.

Come, Humble, Man, Men, Secret, Wish

Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

Artist, Flower, Given, Preach, Sky, Sublimity

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