Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path. — 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
