John of St. Samson Quotes
1571–1636 France
- France
- Non-fiction authors
- Theologians
Also known as: John of St.Samson
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My exercise consists in a total elevation of the spite above all created and sense-objects.
Every soul, touched by God, feels and believes in the depths of its being that it is more sinful than all men together.
The more a person strives after God, the more earnest he will become--the les he will converse with men.
"I beg everyone from the highest to the lowest to forgive me; I have given them all much very bad example."
The obedience of those, purified in soul and body in the furnace of humiliation, is of infinite worth to God.
It is much more trying to be continually tormented by evil men than by devils.
Those who apply themselves more ardently to the practice of love, by that very face bring more devils upon their heads.
Desire, abide, suffer and die unknown for all time; this is true sanctity!
Nothing ever astonishes the really simple person.
The worst of all human miseries is not to know God, not to feel Him, not to desire Him, not to taste Him.
The heavenly Bridegroom allows small failings and common weaknesses in order to deliver his loved ones from pride.
I don’t want anything more than to be one of your spouses employed by you to announce that they languish for your love.
Sing boldly, O spouses of a Bridegroom such as mine!
In a word, frankly, I am in love with the love in my Spouse.
Perfect contemplatives hear without astonishment all that the learned propound since they excel in a science transcending all understanding.
Such is the effect of love's flood rushing into its lovers. It sweeps them away, ravishes them, and swamps them in its waves. These people become love itself — its spirit, its divinity — insofar as it is possible for any creature in this life.
This path is so delightful and delectable that anyone who knows it will lovingly travel it at his own cost and expense. Such happiness is beyond words.
True solitude is in the soul. The soul has as its desert and homeland God Himself, the father and teacher of all souls
God takes such great pleasure in the sanctity of His saints that in the interests of a few, He often allows the whole Church to suffer great loss.
Whether great attraction and strong interior occupations are of nature or of grace can be known by the fact that they are accompanied by perfect rest or subtle disquiet.