Sublime

I love this sentence by the anonymous fourteenth-century English mystic who wrote The Cloud of Unknowing: “It is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.”

«Nada te turbe, nada te espante; todo se pasa, Dios no se muda. La paciencia todo lo alcanza; quien a Dios tiene nada le falta. Solo Dios basta»[12]. La

The night of the senses and the night of the spirit are phases of the dark night of the soul. John compares the night of the senses to dusk, when things have just become hazy. The night of the spirit (which he also calls the night of faith) is like midnight, a deeper darkness in which all things are obscured. Although he describes them in this

And it was at this time in his life that Lewis felt he could go no further. He believed he could no more know God personally than Hamlet could know Shakespeare.

For Teresa and John, the dark night—indeed all of life—is nothing other than the story of a love affair: a romance between God and the human soul that liberates us to love one another.

As John the Baptist said when he saw Our Lord: “I must decrease; He must increase.”

By asking, To whom shall we go?, he affirms that apart from Jesus there is nothing truly worthwhile.

Through martyrdom the disciple is made like his master in willing acceptance of death for the salvation of the world and resembles him by the shedding of his blood. For this reason, therefore, martyrdom is held by the church to be the highest gift and the supreme proof of love. This is given to few, yet all must be prepared to confess Christ before