Several spiritual maxims from John of the Cross:
I did not know Thee, my Lord, because I still desired to know and relish trifling things. My spirit became dry because it forgot to rest in Thee.
If you wish to attain holy recollection, you will do so not by approving but by denying.
The devil fears a soul united to God as he does God Himself.
The purest suffering produces the purest understanding.
Through small things, one reaches the great. The evil that at the beginning appears insignificant, later becomes enormous and without remedy.
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