Richard Rolle Quotes

#1. Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.

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#2. Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

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#3. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

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#4. The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

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#5. It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

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#6. Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.

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#7. O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained.

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#8. The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.

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