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Mechthild of Magdeburg
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“Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.”
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“No one can burn the truth.”
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“Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.”
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“I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.”
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“Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.”
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“See there within the flesh / Like a bright wick, englazed / The soul God's finger lit / To give her liberty, / And joy and power and love.”
Mechthild of Magdeburg, German mystic
(1210 - 1282)
Also seen as: Mechthild von Magdeburg.