John of the Cross Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.

  John of the Cross

  Prayer, Giving Up, Love You

  Saint John of the Cross, Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodríguez (1991). “The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross”

• To reach satisfaction in all
  desire its possession in nothing,
  To come to the knowledge of all
  desire the knowledge of nothing.
  To come to possess all
  desire the possession of nothing.
  To arrive at being all
  desire to be nothing.

  John of the Cross

  Inspirational, Desire, Satisfaction

  Saint John of the Cross, Kieran Kavanaugh (1987). “John of the Cross: Selected Writings”, p.78, Paulist Press

• Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Over You, Desire

• Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

  John of the Cross

  Desire

• Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

  John of the Cross

  Spiritual, Attachment, Desire

• Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

  John of the Cross

  Men, Divine Wisdom, Soul

• God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

  John of the Cross

  Desire, Degrees, Saint

  "The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross".

• For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.

  John of the Cross

  Spiritual, Heart, Attachment

  St John of the Cross (2011). “Dark Night of the Soul: (Authentic Original Classic)”, p.25, Destiny Image Publishers

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