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By AnonymHenry Suso
By ignorance the truth is known.
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By AnonymHenry Suso
If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains and trials of your journey, but rather are contented with them, they will grow afraid of you.
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By AnonymHenry Suso
In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.
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By AnonymHenry Suso
It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.
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By AnonymHenry Suso
Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament
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By AnonymHenry Suso
Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness.
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By AnonymHenry Suso
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
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By AnonymHenry Suso
The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we walk or stand still, eat or drink, we should at all times wear the golden locket "Jesus" upon our heart.
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By AnonymHenry Suso
There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.
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