Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

Whoever flees prayer flees all that is good.

It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that the verse and prose works combined of St. John of the Cross form at once the most grandiose and the most melodiou…

Strive to preserve your heart in peace; let no event of this world disturb it; reflect that all must come to an end.

I have often neglected my appearance. I admit it, and I also admit that it is 'shocking.' But look here, lack of money and poverty have something to do with it…

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of…