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....

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

With respect also to spiritual sloth, beginners are apt to be irked by the things that are most spiritual,....

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

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

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....

Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their....

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....