Christian Mysticism Quotes
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Be passersby.
I am silently lost in God.
My sole occupation is love.
Divinity is aimed at humanity.
God is equally near in all creatures.
Prayer is an ascent of the spirit to God.
We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.
God has many ways of drawing us to Himself.
Each grace faithfully received brought many others.
The soul has a hidden abyss untouched by time and space.
I welcome all the creatures of the world with grace.
All things fail; but Thou, Lord of all, never failest!
The whole Being of God is contained in God alone.
What you're looking for is where you're looking from.
The beautiful is that which we cannot wish to change.
Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.
In the throne of silence are manifest the perfections of spiritual beauty.
O Jesus, my Love, at last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love!
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.
He who has learned to seek nothing but the will of God, shall always find what he seeks.
I, a mere female and fragile vessel, speak these things not from me but from a serene Light.
The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
Become a fertile ground for the divine birth. Cherish this deep silence within, nourish it
He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.
It is certain that if God is to be
born in the soul
it must turn back to eternity….
If you could be silent from all willing and thinking for one hour, you would hear God's inexpressible words.
We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.
A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
Select Christian Mystic Quotes
Quotes by Christian Mystics
- Jesus (1th Century)
- Origen (185 - 254)
- Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 395)
- Evagrius Ponticus (345 - 399)
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
- St. Francis of Assisi (d. 1226)
- Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210 - 1282)
- Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1328)
- Johannes Tauler (1300 - 1361)
- Walter Hilton (1345 - 1396)
- Julian of Norwich (1342 - 1416)
- St. Catherine of Genoa (1447 - 1510)
- St. Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)
- John of the Cross (1542 - 1591)
- Jakob Böhme (1575 - 1624)
- Angelus Silesius (1624 - 1677)
- Brother Lawrence (1614 - 1691)
- Miguel de Molinos (1628 - 1696)
- Jeanne Guyon (1648 - 1717)
- Thérèse of Lisieux (1873 - 1897)
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943)