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If God is in us, and if God is love, it is inevitable that we be brothers; because love of our neighbor is the measure of our love for God.

In this arid and obscure night the soul undergoes a thorough reform in its imperfections of avarice, in which it coveted various spiritual objects and was never content with any of its spiritual exercises.

He that seeks here any other thing than purely God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

We who run in the way of love shouldn't be thinking of sufferings that can take place in the future: it's a lack of confidence, it's like meddling in the work of creation.

By love and not by fear, does a soul avoid committing the least voluntary fault.

It is vital for individuals to make acts of love in this life so that in being perfected in a short time they may not be detained long, either here on earth or in the next life before seeing God.

When you speak with a Lord so great, you should think of Who it is you are addressing and what you yourself are, if only that you may speak to Him with proper respect. How can you address a king with the reverence he deserves unless you are clearly conscious of his position and yours?

There are not two doctrines of St. John of the Cross, one for religious and one for seculars; there is only one, which applies to all Christians indiscriminately and does not require a special state of life, but only a disposition of will, namely the disposition of not wanting to be confined to mediocrity and therefore of not refusing generous renunciation at every privation required for attaining a more intimate union with God.

Love can accomplish all things. Things that are ‘most impossible’ become very easy where love is at work.

My way is all trust and love. I don't understand those who fear so tender a Friend.

Sensible satisfaction is inconstant and very quick to fail.

When God's love takes possession of a heart, it transforms it, it makes human love divine, so to speak.