Today’s One-Liner (#339)
Where there is no love, it is for you to bring love. –Saint John of the Cross, cited in Saints Are Not Sad, 266
Tag: Saint John of the Cross
Reading: Woes and Wonders
Ah! how many lights have I not drawn from the works of our holy Father, St. John of the Cross! At the ages of seventeen and eighteen I had no other spiritual nourishment; later on,…
Today’s One-Liner (#260)
Ah! how many lights have I not drawn from the works of our holy Father, St. John of the Cross! –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul: Autobiography
A Long Way to Go
Some of these beginners, too, make little of their faults, and at other times become over-sad when they see themselves fall into them, thinking themselves to have been saints already; and thus they become angry…
Today’s One-Liner (#256)
“My daughter, ask for nothing other than the cross, and that, in fact, without consolation; for that is perfection.” –Saint John of the Cross to María Machuca, cited in Edith Stein, The Science of the…
Going Further
One day St John of the Cross confided to a friend that there was still something which prevented his complete detachment from earthly affections. Fetching a bundle of papers he threw them into the fire…