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 MagdeburgI was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.
Mechthild of Magdeburg