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…