Mechthild of Magdeburg Quotes

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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.

Mechthild of Magdeburg

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

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

Mechthild of Magdeburg

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

Mechthild of Magdeburg

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

Mechthild of Magdeburg

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.

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Born: 1210

Died: 1282 (aged 72)

Bio: Mechthild of Magdeburg, a Beguine, was a Christian medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit described her visions of God. She was the first mystic to write in German.

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