Richard Rolle 1290, 1349

Richard Rolle Quotes

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

Henri J. M. Nouwen ( 1932 - 1996 )

A split between divinity and humanity has taken place in you. With your 
divinely endowed centre you know God's will, God's way, God's love. 
But your humanity is cut off from that. Your many human needs for 
affection, attention, and consolation are living apart from your divine 
sacred space. Your call is to let these two parts of yourself come 
together again.

You have to move gradually from crying outward - crying out for 
people who you think can fulfil your needs - to crying inward to the 
place where you can let yourself be held and carried by God, who 
has become incarnate in the humanity of those who love you in 
community. No one person can fulfil all your needs. But the community 
can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, 
beyond your anguish, there are human hands that hold you and show 
you God's faithful love.

 From: 'The Inner Voice of Love' by Henri  J. M. Nouwen