Beautiful Quote by Hadewijch

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

— Hadewijch

They who live without Love are dead. / But the worst of all deaths is this -- / That the loving soul be cowardly…

— Hadewijch

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

— Hadewijch

The New Year has come to us. / God be blessed for it.

— Hadewijch

Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.

— Hadewijch

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

— Hadewijch

Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.

— Hadewijch

Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him…

— Hadewijch

love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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;…

— Hadewijch