Beatrijs of Nazareth Quotes
Beatrijs of Nazareth was a thirteenth-century Cistercian nun, mystic, and philosopher of the Low Countries, prioress of the abbey of Our Lady of Nazareth near Lier in the southern Low Countries. Her Seven Manners of Love, the only surviving work in her own Middle Dutch hand, set out a philosophical phenomenology of the seven progressive ways in which divine love possesses the soul, from the first stirring desire for purification through the wounded longing of the third manner to the final manner in which the soul rests in eternity in the very being of God. The quotes below are attributed to Beatrijs of Nazareth, organized by topic.
Beatrijs of Nazareth on God
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Attributed to Beatrijs of Nazareth:
“To rest in eternity is to lose nothing of the self that one had to give.”
Beatrijs of Nazareth on Love
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“Love has seven manners, and each is a kingdom in itself.”
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“What the soul desires above all other things, it does not yet know how to ask for.”
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“The wound of love is the proof that one is alive in love.”
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Attributed to Beatrijs of Nazareth:
“There is no last manner of love; there is only the manner that is given to one this hour.”