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
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
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…
“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…
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…