John of the Cross Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• 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.

  John of the Cross

  Prayer, Work Out, Sin

• 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”

• He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

  John of the Cross

  Prayer, Avoiding

• Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

  John of the Cross

  Prayer, Reading, Meditation

  Saint John of the Cross (1947). “The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church”

• 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.

  John of the Cross

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  Saint John of the Cross (2007). “The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Volume II: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the LIV”, p.586, Cosimo, Inc.

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