In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Confidence

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about God

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Love

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Love

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Prayer

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Silence

If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Soul

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Soul

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
Send to friend | View quote | Quotes about Spirit and Spirituality

John of the Cross, St.

No biography at present.

Search for John of the Cross, St. on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

9 quotations