“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance;
to seek Him the greatest adventure;
to find Him, the greatest human achievement.”
St. Augustine of Hippo
(an old handmade Christimas ornament from 1965 / Julie Cook, 2014)
“They who are bent on sensible sweetness, labor also under another very great imperfection:
excessive weakness and remissness on the rugged road of the cross;
for the soul that is given to sweetness naturally sets its face against
all the pain of self-denial.
They labor under many other imperfections, which have their origin here,
of which our Lord will heal them in due time, through temptations,
aridities** and trials, elements of the dark night.”
St. John of the Cross, p. 28
An Excerpt From
Dark Night of the Soul
**Aridity– ascetical theology…a state of a soul devoid of sensible consolation,
which makes it very difficult to pray
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