The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out to creatures; and they satisfy their thirst, although in darkness, because it is night. This living spring that I long for, I see in this bread of life, although it is night.
John of the CrossStrive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
John of the CrossLive in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
John of the CrossAll the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.
John of the Cross