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Juan de la Cruz
“Whenever anything disagreeable...happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.”
St. John of the Cross

Marva J. Dawn
“In contrast to our society’s mistaken emphasis on positive emotions in our relationship with God, the great Spanish mystic and poet John of the Cross (1542–1591), who is most famous for his reflections on the “dark night of the soul,” also wrote a piece called “Advice on Disregarding Spiritual Sweetness.” In this work St. John compliments the person who loves God without feeling any emotional sweetness, for that individual is focusing on truly loving God and not the feelings. To set our will on gratifying and soothing sensations, to concentrate on capturing them and basking in them, is simply to set our will on what God has created, instead of God Himself. Thereby, we turn those created feelings into the end instead of a means—and a non-necessary means at that. According to St. John, we are ignorant if we suppose that because we fail to have any sweetness or bliss God is failing us. Similarly, we are uninstructed if we presume that in having such delectable emotions we have God. But the height of ignorance, he claims, is if we would follow God only to seek the sweetness and consequently stopped our yearning for God to wallow in delightful feelings when we acquired them.”
Marva J. Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity

“One's self is ever a tenuous thing, discovered only in relinquishment.”
Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

“God can only be met in emptiness, by those who come in love, abandoning all effort to control, every need to astound.”
Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

John R.W. Stott
“Thomas Cranmer in his ‘Homily of Salvation’ explained that three things had to go together in our justification: on God’s part ‘his great mercy and grace’, on Christ’s part ‘the satisfaction of God’s justice’, and on our part ‘true and lively faith’. He concluded the first part of the homily: ‘It pleased our heavenly Father, of his infinite mercy, without any our desert or deserving, to prepare for us the most precious jewels of Christ’s body and blood, whereby our ransom might be fully paid, the law fulfilled, and his justice fully satisfied.’15”
John R.W. Stott, The Cross of Christ

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