Quotes by : San Juan de la Cruz

As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since....

Some of these beginners, too, make little of their faults, and at other times become over-sad when they....

For, when the friendship is purely spiritual, the love of God grows with it; and the more the soul remembers....

Songs of the SoulOn a dark night,Inflamed by love-longing -O exquisite risk! -Undetected I slipped away.My....

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and....

...the clearer the light is, the more it blinds and darkens the pupil of the owl; and the more we look....

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.

The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and....

Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love.

No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough....