" Karol Wojtyła was always on his knees before God, still, motionless, and as though dead in his silence before the majesty of his Father. In thinking of that saintly successor of Peter, I often recall this remark by John of the Cross in the Ascent of Mount Carmel: “All objects living in the soul—whether they be many or few, large or small—must die in order that the soul enter divine union.”3 God "
― Robert Sarah , God or Nothing