First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come. — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
