Top 8 Quotes by John of Ruysbroeck

When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the

When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us.

John of Ruysbroeck

Father, Dark, Light

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; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

John of Ruysbroeck

Knowledge, Affection, States

God creates the world anew in each moment.

John of Ruysbroeck

World, Moments, Creation

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

John of Ruysbroeck

Holiness, Goodness

When love has carried us above all things ... we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us and penetrating us. What is this Light, if it be not a contemplation of the Infinite, and an intuition of Eternity? We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold; because our being, without losing anything of its own personality, is united with the Divine Truth.

John of Ruysbroeck

Light, Personality, Intuition

Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.

John of Ruysbroeck

Meditation, Understanding, Radiance

If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.

John of Ruysbroeck

Simple, Cooking, Feelings

John of Ruysbroeck, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage”, p.132, Aeterna Press