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John Ruysbroeck on Anniversary

1290–1381 Belgium

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God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.

The Spiritual Espousals (1340)

God loves without limit and this puts a loving person most securely at peace.

The Spiritual Espousals (1340)

Compassion is a wound in the heart whence flows a common love to all mankind and which cannot be healed so long as any suffering lives in man.

The Spiritual Espousals (1340)

Our work is the love of God. Our satisfaction lies in submission to the Divine Embrace

Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Ruysbroeck (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.