Top 13 Mechthild Of Magdeburg Quotes
#1. The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love ...
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#3. A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?
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#4. I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.
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#6. One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.
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#7. The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.
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#8. Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.
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#10. Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.
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#11. Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?
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#12. Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.
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#13. I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.
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