Quotes by : San Juan de la Cruz

O how gently and how lovingly dost thou lie awake in the depth and centre of my soul, where thou in secret....

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....

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

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....

...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.

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

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