Hadewijch > Quotes

“For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.”
― Hadewijch, Hadewijch: The Complete Works

“Gain or loss, honor or shame,
Consolation at being with God in heaven
Or in the torture of hell:
This Fire makes no distinction.
It burns to death everything it ever touches:
Damnation or blessing no longer matters.”
― Hadewijch

“Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.”
― Hadewijch

“So that each knows the other through and through In the anguish or the repose or the madness of Love,
And eats his flesh and drinks his blood;
The heart of each devours the other's heart,
One soul assaults the other and invades it completely,
As he who is Love itself showed us
When he gave us himself to eat,
Disconcerting all the thoughts of man.”
― Hadewijch, Hadewijch: The Complete Works

“At that time I also had, for a short while, the strength to bear it. But all too soon I lost external sight of the shape of that beautiful man, and I saw him disappear to nothing, so quickly melting away and fusing together that I could not see or observe him outside of me, nor discern him within me. It was to me at that moment as if we were one without distinction.”
― Hadewijch, Hadewijch: The Complete Works

“Make haste to Love.”
― Hadewijch, Hadewijch: The Complete Works