Hadewijch Quotes

• even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

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  God, Fall, Human Nature

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.49, Paulist Press

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

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  Love Is, Fire, Age

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.60, Paulist Press

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• May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

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  Love, Beautiful, May

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• 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 God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.

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  Men, People, Humanity

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.61, Paulist Press

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• Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

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  Honor, Damnation, Care

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.49, Paulist Press

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

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  Spring, Fire, Light

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.352, Paulist Press

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• It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.

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  Blow, Strikes, Code

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• For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

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  Sweet, Two, Noble

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

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  Grieving, Encounters, Fervent

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.93, Paulist Press

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• Los que viven sin Amor están muertos. / Pero la peor de todas las muertes es ésta -- / Que el alma amante sea cobarde hacia el Amor; / Pues el Amor perfecto nunca es cobarde, / Sino que reclama sus derechos, de los que carece.

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  Love Is, Rights, Perfect

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

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  Great Love, Wish, Noble

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• The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.

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  Alma

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.89, Paulist Press

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• Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

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  Evil, Despair

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

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  Kissing, Love Is, Wrath

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• The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.

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  New Year, Years, May

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.180, Paulist Press

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• 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 great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason indeed.

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  Christian, Pain, Blessed

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• 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.

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  Hombres, Uso, Mayo

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

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  Giving, Despair, Vain

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• although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile.

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  Love Is, Desire, Want

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.335, Paulist Press

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• Aunque la estación es alegre por todas partes, / y la montaña y el valle son todos verdes, / eso parecería un asunto verdaderamente pequeño a él / que ha encontrado el infortunio en el amor.

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  Mountain, Valleys, Matter

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.165, Paulist Press

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

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  New Year, Blessed, Years

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.175, Paulist Press

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