“Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.” IfsLoveJusticeLove IsPleasureMarriageFireAliveShareSmartDifficultySensesCeaseHonourGroundedUsefulnessStaleConstancyPleasure Love Book:The Essays Source: The Essays
“Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.” GivingShouldSoulReasonDesirePrayerLove IsLove YouGiving UpAnd LoveDifficultySatisfactionYour SoulEaseNever Giving UpPersevere Book:The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross Source: The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross