Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.
Mechthild of MagdeburgThe day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.
Mechthild of MagdeburgLord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.
Mechthild of MagdeburgIf you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.
Mechthild of Magdeburg