Quotes by Women Mystics

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Rabia Basri

Angela of Foligno

Gemma Galgani

Alice Bailey

Sophie Swetchine

Meera Bai

She came before the Archbishop and fell down on her knees, the Archbishop saying full boisterously unto her: "Why weepest thou, woman?" She, answering, said: "Sir, ye shall wish some day that ye had wept as sore as I."

The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.

But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at those which console.

Sophie Swetchine

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Adrienne von Speyr

Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

Angela of Foligno

I so detached my heart from the world and cut short my hopes that for thirty years now I have performed each prayer as though it were my last and I were praying the prayer of farewell.

In order for the Moral Majority and the mobs to understand Rajneesh, they will have to leave their mob mentality and their morality and become amoral. Right now they are living in the 16th century; it is about time that they grow up and move with the science. And become sophisticated as Rajneesh are.

Ma Anand Sheela

Reincarnation is implicit in the manifested universe and is a basic and fundamental.

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

There is nothing so great or ideally beautiful as the action of God in the human soul. If we knew how to discern it in ourselves, our lives would be transformed. If we could see it in others we would love even more him who is always in our midst, who acts in us, and who works marvels - these spiritual renewals that we shall understand only in eternity.

Élisabeth Leseur

'Look Daughter, and learn how to love' and He showed me His five open wounds.

For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.

Elizabeth of the Trinity