St. John of the Cross quote: "If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them."

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will lea...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlighte...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for the...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

To saints, their very slumber is a prayer.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Be...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the l...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlighte...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Be...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the l...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor t...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according ...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which h...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,
JOHN CROSS

There are dozens of ways one can go about managing his or her career,
JOHN CROSS

[If that weren't enough of an incentive to stay put, the company offered Cross the opportunity to en...
JOHN CROSS

It should be considered that increases in the mill price of steel have only a small impact on the ov...
JOHN CROSS

My fists get clenched, my muscles get tight, I'm getting hot.
JOHN CROSS

If the man or woman are willing to take a look at their beliefs or their behavior, then they can cha...
JOHN CROSS

I still have a choice whether I'm going to respond or react.
JOHN CROSS

They wanted someone with hands-on business experience and were shocked to see all that I had done at...
JOHN CROSS

So we are not saying goodbye forever, ... We are saying we will see you later.
JOHN CROSS

Stranger in a Strange Land.
JOHN CROSS

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Preach the gospel to all the world, and if necessary, use words
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Preach the Gospel at all times ... if necessary, use words.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Love is inseparable from knowledge.
ST. MACARIUS OF EGYPT

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

Good actions get good results in time.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASISSI

It is love alone that gives worth to all things
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Normal....
What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.
So what if the majori...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, n...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, domina...
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has ha...
ST. MARK THE ASCETIC

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can ill...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be goo...
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exe...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

The impossible - what nobody can do until somebody does
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Preach the Gospel at all times ... if necessary, use words.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

For it is in giving that we receive.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Learn to selfconquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage w...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. ...
ST. CLARE OF ASSISI

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is in...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Hell is full of good intentions or desires.
ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attai...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Preach the gospel to all the world, and if necessary, use words
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST THERESA OF JESUS

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to t...
ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stron...
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one te...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God'...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's min...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA