John Of The Cross Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Of The Cross
John Of The Cross Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!
God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform.
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.
The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.