John Of Ruysbroeck Quotes

#1. Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

John Of Ruysbroeck

#2. God creates the world anew in each moment.

John Of Ruysbroeck

#3. If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.

John Of Ruysbroeck

#4. The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

John Of Ruysbroeck

#5. Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.

John Of Ruysbroeck

#6. The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.

John Of Ruysbroeck