Mechthild 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.

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#4. God is not in strength but in truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. 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.

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#6. It also occurred to him that perhaps this only meant that the less he saw of people, the more kindly he felt toward them, and that this might explain his current mild exasperation with his many condolence-offering acquaintances.

Helen Simonson

#7. 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?

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#8. Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#9. Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

Fannie Flagg

#10. I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.

Alex Bogusky

#11. God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#12. When we come face-to-face with the tender, forgiving eye of our Redeemer, only then will we gain the power to forgive ourselves - and those who have used us. In light of the forgiveness Christ has offered us, how can we offer less to those who have hurt us?

Leslie Ludy

#13. Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

Keith O'Brien

#14. Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#15. Rule, she's always been an Archer. Putting a rock on her finger is just a formality. No one doubts how much you care about her, or that you are committed to her and her alone. Screw her obnoxious family and whatever headache Mom and Dad might want to cause, your want her forever, ask her.

Jay Crownover

#16. Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

Norman Vincent Peale

#17. The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#18. 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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#19. I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.

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#20. life seems to be a collision of opposites.

Richard Rohr

#21. 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.

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#22. The one thing I always think about when I don't get jobs is that it just wasn't yours. You don't want to do something that you're not right for because it won't make the production look good, and it won't make you look good.

Timothy Simons

#23. Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.

Janet Morris

#24. 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?

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#25. Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#26. 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 ...

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#27. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

Wayne Gerard Trotman