Love of God consists…
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Attach your heart to God…
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be attached to anything else.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Deny your desires…
Deny your desires and you will find what your heart longs for.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Faith and love…
Faith and love are like the blind man’s guides. They will lead you along a path unknown to you, to the place where God is hidden.
— Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Cleanse your soul…
If you desire that devotion be born in your spirit and that the love of God and the desire for divine things increase, cleanse your soul of every desire, attachment, and ambition in such a way that you have no concern about anything.
— Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Deny oneself for Christ…
This path to God does not consist in having a multitude of meditations or particular practices, nor in having ecstasies… but rather in the one thing necessary… earnestly to deny oneself interiorly as well as exteriorly, and for Christ’s sake to be ready to suffer and die to self in every respect.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
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