The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
Meister EckhartTag: love knowledge vision god understanding seeing eyes mysticism medieval religious-experience
Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wits --
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house.
Tag: religion feminism bible theology interpretation medieval mystic
Reason, you'll always be half-blind.
Marguerite PoretePeople pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.
Marguerite de NavarreTag: french effort achievement medieval grapes troubador vines
Lying is a thriving vocation.
Susanna CentlivreThere once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
Richard LedererTag: history christianity religion medieval scepticism middle-ages dark-age
And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.
Lisa Ann SandellI mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.'
Then look your fill, and leap away.
Of all the things that men may heed
'Tis most of love they sing indeed.
Whoever has received knowledge
and eloquence in speech from God
should not be silent or secretive
but demonstrate it willingly.
When a great good is widely heard of,
then, and only then, does it bloom,
and when that good is praised by man,
it has spread its blossoms.
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