Quotes by : San Juan de la Cruz

Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the....

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

There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for....

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....

They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

While I don't equate the dark night with depression, I do think our depressive moods could be imagined....

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

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