Henry Suso

After big storms there follow bright days.

— Henry Suso

Suffering is a short pain and a long joy.

— Henry Suso

“[T]here was a woman who had set her heart intensely on a kind of transitory love called flirtation, which is a poison…

— Henry Suso

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the…

— Henry Suso

Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament

— Henry Suso

I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence.

— Henry Suso

The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No…

— Henry Suso

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a…

— Henry Suso

If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains…

— Henry Suso

Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you…

— Henry Suso

It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.

— Henry Suso

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a…

— Henry Suso

“If you strive to do your best in all things, people will take it as being the worst thing possible from you.…

— Henry Suso

By ignorance the truth is known.

— Henry Suso

Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.

— Henry Suso

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

— Henry Suso