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… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share
Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough. — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone. — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
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… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life. — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
