Quotes by San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul

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There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of sufferi — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
Songs of the SoulOn a dark night,Inflamed by love-longing -O exquisite risk! -Undetected I slipped away.My house, at las — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
With respect also to spiritual sloth, beginners are apt to be irked by the things that are most spiritual, from which th — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be dispose — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
Some of these beginners, too, make little of their faults, and at other times become over-sad when they see themselves f — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my intent is to t — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
For, when the friendship is purely spiritual, the love of God grows with it; and the more the soul remembers it, the mor — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behav — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives th — San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul