John of the Cross Quotes about Soul

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.

Live 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.

God leads every soul by a separate path.

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

Faith is the union of God and the soul.

The 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.

Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself...this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is transformed in love.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

Let my soul live as if separated from my body.

Who teaches the soul if not God?

The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light