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This annotated version of The living flame of love cointains a ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS MINI BIOGRAPHY.
We do not possess any autobiography of St. John, as we do of St. Teresa, or the more active portion and character of his life would be at once apparent. Moreover, only very few of his letters have been preserved not twenty, in fact or we should undoubtedly have had sufficient evidence of his busy and active life. But, even as it is, proofs glance out from his epistles of this im portant element in his composition.
In his [third] letter he thus writes to the religious of Veas, a highly favoured foundation :
What is wanting in you, if, indeed, anything be wanting, is... silence and work. For, whereas speaking distracts, silence and action collect the thoughts and strengthen the spirit/ And again : To arrest this evil, and to preserve our
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