Top 28 Mechthild Of Magdeburg Quotes
#1. Prayer, said Mechthild of Magdeburg, brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a narrow room where they speak much of love: and here the rules which govern that meeting are laid down by a master's hand.
Anonymous
#2. With their ever-available loving hearts, they bow before God and bend down under all this pain and are lower than all the other creatures on earth. Pride is rare among them.3 Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#3. I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.
Theophilus London
#7. Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.
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#8. Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."
William Makepeace Thackeray
#9. Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.
Ford Madox Ford
#11. Hannah, as if she understood her place in the cosmos, grew from quiet infant to watchful child: a child fond of nooks and corners, who curled up in closets, behind sofas, under dangling tablecloths, staying out of sight as well as out of mind, to ensure the terrain of the family did not change.
Celeste Ng
#12. I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.
David Cassidy
#13. Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
Cormac McCarthy
#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions
it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.
Benjamin Zander
#22. You can love everyone, but you can never hurt anyone else without hurting yourself. You will burn yourself for the rest of your life with this fire and agony.
Debasish Mridha
#23. You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.
Michel Houellebecq
#25. You always hear people talk about how there are moments in your life when you just know that things will never be the same. I always thought that was all horseshit. But here, now, with the feeling of her soft, incredible lips moving with mine, I know that it happens.
Steph Campbell
#26. I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
Chris Jordan
#27. Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Nina Simone
#28. 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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