John of Ruysbroeck Quotes

God in the depths of us receives God who comes to us: it is God contemplating God.

Unity is this: that a man feel himself to be gathered together with all his powers in the unity of his heart. Unity brings inward peace and restfulness of heart. Unity of heart is a bond which draws together body and soul, heart and senses, and all the outward and inward powers and encloses them in the union of love.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are, and whither we are going. We come from God, and we are in exile.

My words are strange, but those who love will understand.

In Eternity all creatures are God in God

Even as God is common to all, the sun shines upon all trees

All our ways end in superessential Being

God being a common good, and His boundless love being common to all, He gives His grace...to all men, Pagan and Jew, good or evil...Thus God is a common light and a common splendour, enlightening heaven and earth, and every man, each according to his need and worth.

We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold.

Our work is the love of God. Our satisfaction lies in submission to the Divine Embrace

You are as holy as you wish to be.