Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.
John of RuysbroeckThe love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.
John of RuysbroeckContemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.
John of Ruysbroeck