God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
John of the CrossYearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
John of the CrossThe centre of the soul is God; and, when the soul has attained to Him according to the whole capacity of its being, which is the strength and virtue of the soul, it will have reached the last and the deep centre of the soul, which will be when with all its powers it loves and understands and enjoys God.
John of the Cross