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… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
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
God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature. — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature.… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
