John of the Cross Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

  John of the Cross

  Religious, Catholic, Suffering

• Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. 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.

  John of the Cross

  Strong, Broken, Bird

• Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

  John of the Cross

  Love, Life, Feelings

  St John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross”, p.149, ICS Publications

• In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

  John of the Cross

  Sympathy, Suffering, Sorrow

• 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

• The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; The Third, that it aims its beak to the skies; The Fourth, that it does not have a definite color; The Fifth, that it sings very softly.

  John of the Cross

  Color, Sky, Bird

  Saint John of the Cross, Antonio T. de Nicolas (1996). “San Juan de la Cruz”, p.34, Weiser Books

• The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.

  John of the Cross

  Suffering, Wish, Use

• The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

  John of the Cross

  Understanding, Suffering, Bears

  St. John of the Cross, Thomas Merton (2007). “Counsels of Light and Love of St. John of the Cross”, p.56, Paulist Press

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