Saint John Of The Cross Quotes & Sayings

God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform. — John Of The Cross

There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer, and also more profitable, than that of rejoicing and of action. In suffering God gives strength, but in action and in joy the soul does but show its own weakness and imperfections. And in suffering, the soul practices and acquires virtue, and becomes pure, wiser, and more cautious. — San Juan De La Cruz

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. — Thomas Merton

Who teaches the soul if not God? — John Of The Cross

They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves. — John Of The Cross

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. — Christopher Lasch

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not. — China Mieville

This no longer a state of mind it's a reality, this is the beginning of an opportunity that hasn't presented itself in Collin County or any other county in the country. — Florence Shapiro

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better. — Laurel Clark

I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet! — Terry Pratchett

people are standing in silent lines with their eyes half-open and their minds half-closed, — Fredrik Backman

[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer. — Wallace Stegner

By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone. — Pope Francis

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination. — Saint John Chrysostom

Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ. — John Of The Cross

Mowrer and his family made it safely to Tokyo. His wife, Lillian, recalled her great sorrow at having to leave Berlin. "Nowhere have I had such lovely friends as in Germany," she wrote. "Looking back on it all is like seeing someone you love go mad - and do horrible things. — Erik Larson

One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book — Bernard Kelvin Clive

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty. — John Of The Cross