When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“love is the inclination, strength, and power for the soul in making its way to God, for love unites it with God.… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ. — John of the Cross Copy Share
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love… — John of the Cross Copy Share
See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained… — John of the Cross Copy Share
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every… — John of the Cross Copy Share
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share
For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all… — John of the Cross Copy Share
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have… — John of the Cross Copy Share
To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come… — John of the Cross Copy Share
I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity,… — John of the Cross Copy Share
However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search… — John of the Cross Copy Share
