The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we walk or stand still, eat or drink, we should at all times wear the golden… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
“[T]here was a woman who had set her heart intensely on a kind of transitory love called flirtation, which is a poison to spiritual happiness. He said to her that if she wished to lead a calm spiritual existence, she would have to give this up and take eternal Wisdom as her beloved in place of her present love. This… — Henry Suso Copy Share
In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to… — Henry Suso Copy Share
Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence. — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains and trials… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely,… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
