John of St. Samson Quotes

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Make use of this very simple aspiration: "you and I, my love, you and I, you and I, and never another nor more!" To which you could add some burning words like: "since you are entirely good and all goodness itself; since you are entirely glorious and all glory itself; since you are entirely holy and all holiness itself!"

John of St. Samson
Aspiring, therefore, is not merely an affective conversation, a good exercise in itself. … Aspiring is therefore an expression of love: a love so purely and radically expressed that it transcends all loves that are comprehensible by the senses, reason, or the intellect. By the impetuosity and force of the Spirit of God, it arrives at union with God, not by chance but by a sudden transformation of the spirit in God. In this, I say, the Holy Spirit goes beyond all the love that can be understood and comprehended in the abundant ineffable sweetness of God Himself, in Whom it is amorously immersed.

John of St. Samson
Love does not need academic research to flash the abundant simple flames of its heart with endless ardor... With no other hope it desires to lose itself deeper and deeper in the Beloved.

John of St. Samson
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.

John of St. Samson
Nothing is past, present or future, or even eternal; all is present in this deliriously wonderful sea. When one returns to and in himself, he sees and feels himself to be less than the tiniest jot.

John of St. Samson
This love is so overpowering that the will alone enters the amorous bosom of love, where it savors an unutterable love beyond all understanding and expression. All the while, the dumbfounded intellect remains paralyzed at the gate.

John of St. Samson
After this life we look forward too our full and consummated beatific pleasure in the immensity of His totality, in the infinite expanse of HIs amorous furnace, aglow with His infinite fire.

John of St. Samson
Thereupon one reanimates his flight but not for himself. Instead, he moves in God, desiring to be engulfed in his infinite expanse, in order to continue his own life in his infinite life. Thus, the action of this love is so supernatural and so divine in God that it becomes both the means and the end.

John of St. Samson
The sight of the intuitive and ravishing Beauty of God holds her as if asleep in its delectable bosom. This state surpasses all human definition and comparison.

John of St. Samson
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.

John of St. Samson