Christian Mystic Quotes on the Soul
The soul is symphonic.
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
Consider that God reigns only in the peaceful and disinterested soul.
A soul enkindled with love is a gentle, meek, humble, and patient soul.
God is never out of the soul: in which He dwelleth blissfully without end..
It is certain that if God is to be
born in the soul
it must turn back to eternity….
I understood that true greatness is not found in a name but in the soul.
We may never come to full knowing of God till we know first clearly our own Soul..
The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.
God's greatest content and glory is to see the Soul in silence, desirous, humble, quiet, and resigned.
The soul that desires God to surrender himself to it entirely must surrender itself entirely to him without keeping anything for itself.
This food of love draws the soul above distinction or difference, beyond resemblance to divine unity. This is what happens to the transfigured spirit.
God is awakened in the soul. God breathes in the soul... Oh, how happy is this soul that is ever conscious of God resting and reposing within its breast!
Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.
THE third sort, which is as perfect Contemplation as can be had in this life, consisteth both in knowing and affecting; that is, in knowing and perfect loving of God, which is when a man’s soul is first reformed by perfection of virtues to the image of Jesus, and afterwards, when it pleaseth God to visit him, he is taken in from all earthly and fleshly affections, from vain thoughts and imaginings of all bodily creatures, and, as it were, much ravished and taken up from his bodily senses, and then by the grace of the Holy Ghost is enlightened, to see by his understanding Truth itself (which is God) and spiritual things, with a soft, sweet, burning love in God, so perfectly that he becometh ravished with His love, and so the soul for the time is become one with God, and conformed to the image of the Trinity.
The beginning of this Contemplation may be felt in this life, but the full perfection of it is reserved unto the bliss in heaven. Of this union and conforming to our Lord speaks St Paul thus: Qui adhaeret Deo unus spiritus est cum eo;5 that is to say, he who by ravishing of love is become united to God, God and that soul are not now two, but both one. And surely in this oneing consisteth the marriage which passeth betwixt God and the soul, that shall never be dissolved or broken.
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) »
- 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) »
