Quotes from John of the Cross
God is a dark night to man in this life.
- John of the Cross
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
- John of the Cross
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.
- John of the Cross
God leads every soul by a separate path.
- John of the Cross
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
- John of the Cross
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
- John of the Cross
See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
- John of the Cross
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
- John of the Cross
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
- John of the Cross
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.
- John of the Cross
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
- John of the Cross
Who teaches the soul if not God?
- John of the Cross