God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with the desire that people know of them. Those who work for God with purest love not only care nothing about whether others see their works, but do not even seek that God himself know of them.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
God is never absent from the soul.
— Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
God does not fit in an occupied heart.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
To saints, their very slumber is a prayer.
— Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Suffering for God is better than working miracles.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Oh, did spiritual persons but know how much good and what great abundance of spirit they lose through not seeking to raise up their desires above childish things, and how in this simple spiritual food they would find the sweetness of all things, if they desired not to taste those things (passing diversions and distractions)! But such food gives them no pleasure.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
