St. John of the Cross quote: "If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them."

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will lea...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the l...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

To saints, their very slumber is a prayer.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Be...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor t...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlighte...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for the...
ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Be...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which h...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according ...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlighte...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor t...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird t...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the l...
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

My fists get clenched, my muscles get tight, I'm getting hot.
JOHN CROSS

We are here on Earth for just a short time, whether you're 16 years old or 80,
JOHN CROSS

It should be considered that increases in the mill price of steel have only a small impact on the ov...
JOHN CROSS

If the man or woman are willing to take a look at their beliefs or their behavior, then they can cha...
JOHN CROSS

I still have a choice whether I'm going to respond or react.
JOHN CROSS

Stranger in a Strange Land.
JOHN CROSS

There are dozens of ways one can go about managing his or her career,
JOHN CROSS

[If that weren't enough of an incentive to stay put, the company offered Cross the opportunity to en...
JOHN CROSS

They wanted someone with hands-on business experience and were shocked to see all that I had done at...
JOHN CROSS

So we are not saying goodbye forever, ... We are saying we will see you later.
JOHN CROSS

Homines sunt voluntates
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO. - THE CITY OF GOD - XIV

Most High, glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me true faith, certain hope, an...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (THE PRAYER BEFORE THE CRUCIFIX

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stron...
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX

Love is inseparable from knowledge.
ST. MACARIUS OF EGYPT

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, n...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exe...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA

Hell is full of good intentions or desires.
ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to t...
ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attai...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

The impossible - what nobody can do until somebody does
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can ill...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Preach the Gospel at all times ... if necessary, use words.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and ...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

For it is in giving that we receive.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Preach the gospel to all the world, and if necessary, use words
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one te...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Learn to selfconquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage w...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God'...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's min...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Normal....
What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.
So what if the majori...
ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA

You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

Good actions get good results in time.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASISSI

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
ST THERESA OF JESUS

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

It is love alone that gives worth to all things
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage ...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

Patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God suffi...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. ...
ST. CLARE OF ASSISI

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be goo...
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is in...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, domina...
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT

When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has ha...
ST. MARK THE ASCETIC

A true Christian is made by faith and love toward Christ. Our sins do not in the least hinder our Ch...
LETTERS OF ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
OLIVER ST. JOHN

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN

And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time...
LARA ST. JOHN

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to...
LARA ST. JOHN

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
LARA ST. JOHN

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they...
LARA ST. JOHN

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be som...
LARA ST. JOHN

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in femal...
LARA ST. JOHN

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
LARA ST. JOHN

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get ...
LARA ST. JOHN

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
LARA ST. JOHN

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
LARA ST. JOHN

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ...
LARA ST. JOHN

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
LARA ST. JOHN

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or ...
LARA ST. JOHN

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the...
LARA ST. JOHN

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, t...
LARA ST. JOHN

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having mu...
LARA ST. JOHN

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
LARA ST. JOHN

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop o...
LARA ST. JOHN

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
LARA ST. JOHN

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popu...
LARA ST. JOHN

The only menace is inertia.
ST. JOHN PERSE

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSATOM

Charity is the scope of all God's commands.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSATOM

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 I hear no...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the ...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidenta...
LARA ST. JOHN

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
HENRY ST. JOHN

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
LARA ST. JOHN

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly d...
LARA ST. JOHN

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
HENRY ST JOHN

When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drummi...
TREVOR ST. JOHN

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSATOM

In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
LEE ST. JOHN

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonio...
TREVOR ST. JOHN

I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I m...
TREVOR ST. JOHN

...stooping very low, He engraves with care
His Name, indelible, upon our dust;
And from t...
PATRICIA ST. JOHN

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't real...
IAN ST. JOHN

In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family reci...
ROBERT ST. JOHN

The truth that you are in charge of your life will set you free only after it really irritates you.
SKY ST. JOHN

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion and understated erotica that popul...
LARA ST. JOHN

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid ...
ST. JOHN HONEYWOOD

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
ST. JOHN HONEYWOOD

When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run, Sat down, drank off his q...
ST. JOHN HONEYWOOD

Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To...
ST. JOHN ERVINE

Every day the church here (in Antioch] feeds 3000 people. Besides this, the church daily helps provi...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, an...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blo...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Ascension A comprehended god is no god.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Seeing, then, it is no longer the fisherman, the son of Zebedee, but He who knoweth "the deep things...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was...
TINA ST. JOHN

He pinpointed Helen immediately, despite so many women—all dressed in somber mourning attire—aga...
BECCA ST. JOHN

From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and deli...
TINA ST. JOHN

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasu...
HENRY ST. JOHN

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved al...
IAN ST. JOHN

I didn't go out for a soap until I moved to New York. I wasn't even considering soaps, but m...
TREVOR ST. JOHN

Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and ...
IAN ST. JOHN

When I came to see you
It hurt me how thin you had become

In the months of addiction...
DAVID ST. JOHN

What the heart gives away is never gone…It is kept in the hearts of others forever.
ROBIN ST. JOHN

The way to final freedom is within thy self.
THE BOOK OF THE GOLDEN PRECEPTS

Roses are red, Violettes are bllue,
Valentines day is consumerous crap,now don't you have ironi...
MOCK OF THE WEEK THE SHOW

Nature is under control but not disturbed.
BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task...
BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS

FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping wi...
THE DICTIONARY OF DATING

Eye Contact: A method utilized by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in ...
THE DICTIONARY OF DATING

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
THE LAWS OF MANU

I'm sorry I brought this upon you, my boy. I'm sorry you must carry this burden. I'm sorry for every...
LORD OF THE RINGS

I'm on my third Mrs. Potts' costume,'' Treglown said.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Peace is the biggest struggle.
JULIANA OF THE NETHERLANDS

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
JULIANA OF THE NETHERLANDS

All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old who are strong do not wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS

I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS

Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
LORD OF THE RINGS

PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death i...
LORD OF THE RINGS

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to und...
LORD OF THE RINGS

If we're going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

I'm naked in the dark...there's nothing...nothing...
LORD OF THE RINGS

The Bad Pants Open has become a tradition at Indian Lakes Resort, ... It's the only golf outing in w...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Dorothy: Don't be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don't talk.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Auntie Em: For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Wizard of Oz: You people should consider yourselves lucky that I'm granting you an audience tomorrow...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

That's the scary part. I didn't know if I should smile, crack up, scream or run.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Close you eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like...
THE WIZARD OF OZ

Wicked,
THE WIZARD OF OZ

celebrate the nerd within me.
THE WIZARD OF OZ

I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.
LORD OF THE RINGS

If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.

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