Many praise and bless Jesus as long as they receive some consolation from Him, but if He hide Himself and leave them for a little while, they fall ei… - John of the Cross

Letter 33 [To a discalced Carmelite nun in Segovia[63] Ubeda, October-November 1591] ... Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love. God so acts with us, for he loves us that we might love by means of the very love he bears toward us. [63] This person's identify is unknown.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

David in this night says of himself, “My heart is inflamed, and my reins are changed, and I am brought to nothing, and knew not.”2 That is, “my heart hath been inflamed” in the love of contemplation;