--- title: "1 Shall Remain Quotes By Hadewijch" description: "1 Shall Remain quotes by Hadewijch. Plus more from Hadewijch and more Shall Remain sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58e/hadewijch-26576_conquer_what-use-is-it-for-me-to-force-my-nature_2523248.png" --- > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/what-use-is-it-for-me-to-force-my-nature-for-my-nature-shall-always/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58e/hadewijch-26576_conquer_what-use-is-it-for-me-to-force-my-nature_2523248.png) ## More by Hadewijch > [He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/he-who-lives-in-despair-takes-and-gives-in-vain/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/they-who-live-without-love-are-dead-but-the-worst-of-all-deaths-is/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/be-fervent-in-god-and-let-nothing-grieve-you-whatever-you-encounter/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [The New Year has come to us. / God be blessed for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/the-new-year-has-come-to-us-god-be-blessed-for-it/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/love-has-seven-names-which-as-you-know-are-appropriate-to-her-chain/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/i-wish-to-devote-all-my-time-to-noble-thoughts-about-great-love/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/take-care-you-who-wish-to-deal-with-names-for-love-behind-their/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/may-your-service-of-love-a-beautiful-thing-want-nothing-else-fear/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/although-the-season-is-joyful-everywhere-and-mountain-and-valley-are/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/love-is-that-burning-fire-which-devours-everything-and-shall-never/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/nowadays-this-is-the-way-everyone-loves-himself-people-wish-to-live/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/first-the-lover-must-learn-charity-and-keep-god-s-law-then-he-shall/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/do-good-under-all-circumstances-but-with-no-care-for-any-profit-or/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/despair-makes-us-serve-evil-as-much-as-good/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) > [It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/it-is-written-in-the-code-of-love-he-who-strikes-the-blow-is-himself/) [Hadewijch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hadewijch/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shall-remain/hadewijch/#itemlist", "name": "1 Shall Remain Quotes By Hadewijch", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hadewijch" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hadewijch/what-use-is-it-for-me-to-force-my-nature-for-my-nature-shall-always/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58e/hadewijch-26576_conquer_what-use-is-it-for-me-to-force-my-nature_2523248.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58e/hadewijch-26576_conquer_what-use-is-it-for-me-to-force-my-nature_2523248.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58e/hadewijch-26576_conquer_what-use-is-it-for-me-to-force-my-nature_2523248.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what…” — Hadewijch", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shall-remain/hadewijch/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shall-remain/hadewijch/", "name": "Shall Remain Quotes by Hadewijch", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shall-remain/hadewijch/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58e/hadewijch-26576_conquer_what-use-is-it-for-me-to-force-my-nature_2523248.png" }, "description": "1 Shall Remain quotes by Hadewijch. 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