Mechthild of Magdeburg Quotes

• 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 is love.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Soul, Return, Strive

  Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1953). “The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297): Or, The Flowing Light of the Godhead”

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• La oración no es otra cosa que un anhelo del alma... hace descender al gran Dios al pequeño corazón; impulsa al alma hambrienta hacia la plenitud de Dios; reúne a estos dos amantes, Dios y el alma, en un lugar maravilloso donde hablan mucho de amor.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Prayer, Heart, Two

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• A fish cannot drown in water,
  A bird does not fall in air.
  In the fire of creation,
  God doesn't vanish:
  The fire brightens.
  Each creature God made
  must live in its own true nature;
  How could I resist my nature,
  That lives for oneness with God?

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Fall, Fire, Air

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• The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Spiritual, Awakening, Saws

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Jesus, Peace, Lying

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Reflection, Sun, Lovers

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• La estupidez se basta a sí misma. La sabiduría nunca aprende lo suficiente.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Stupidity, Enough, Sufficient

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• That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Wise, Sweet, Prayer

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• I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Reason, Alone In Love

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's unspeakable glory -- that incomprehensible wonder -- the tender caress between God and the soul...the unmingled joy of union, the living love of eternity as it now is and evermore shall be.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Eye, Light, Joy

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• How should one live? Live Welcoming to all.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Welcome, Should

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• From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Love, Suffering, Embrace

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Knowledge, Godly, And Love

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• I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Faith, Lord, Leading Me

  Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1998). “The Flowing Light of the Godhead”, p.59, Paulist Press

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• God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Dog, Giving, Grace

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• Los peces no pueden ahogarse en el agua. Los pájaros no pueden hundirse en el aire. Esto ha dado Dios a todas las criaturas, para que fomenten y busquen su propia naturaleza. ¿Cómo, pues, puedo yo soportar la mía?

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Aire, Agua, Pájaro

  Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1953). “The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297): Or, The Flowing Light of the Godhead”

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• One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Sweet, Eye, Effort

  Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

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• 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 the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.

  Matilde de Magdeburgo

  Pride, Names, Hatred

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