Hadewijch Quotes
even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.
Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.
love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.
For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.
Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.
The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.
What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.
Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love.
