ST JOHN OF THE CROSS

The way of perfection and negation  of ones own will
...St john of the cross

He speaks....and I listen....
"
And many of these would have god will that which they themselves will
And are fretful in having to will that which he wills, and find it repugnant to
accommodate their will  to that  of god, hence it happens to them that often
times where that wherein they find not their own will and pleasure is not the
will of god that on the other hand when they themselves find satisfaction , that
is the will of god, thus they measure god by themselves and not themselves by
god,  acting quite contrarily  to that which he himself taught in the gospel...

"That he who should loose his will for his sake, the same
Should gain it, and he who should desire to gain it, the same  should loose it"