Our greatest need is to be silent before this great God with the appetite and with the tongue, for the only language he hears is the silent language … - John of the Cross

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he’s traveling on, then he must close his syes and travel in the dark.

low stage of progress, and follow their own nature closely in the intercourse and dealings which they have with God, because the gold of their spirit is not yet purified and refined, they still think of God as little children, and speak of God as little children, and feel and experience God as little children, even as Saint Paul says,106 because they have not reached perfection, which is the union of the soul with God.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.