Henry Suso Quotes on God
Henry Suso (Heinrich Seuse, c.1295–1366) — the German Dominican mystic who along with Eckhart and Tauler forms the trio of fourteenth-century Rhineland spirituality — gave late medieval mystical theology one of its most affective treatments of the relation between the soul and God. The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom (Büchlein der Ewigen Weisheit, c.1328) and the autobiographical Life of the Servant develop the soul’s progress toward God through a sequence of devotional dialogues, ascetic practices, and visionary encounters with Eternal Wisdom — the personified Christ in his role as the divine teacher whose imitation organizes the soul’s mystical formation. The framework, more emotionally extravagant than Eckhart’s speculative apophaticism but in continuity with its underlying theology of the divine ground, shaped late-medieval German devotional literature and the modern Catholic recovery of Rhineland mysticism through the ressourcement scholarship of Bernard McGinn and others.
Quotes
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“Eternal Wisdom is the bride of every faithful soul.”
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“Suffering rightly borne is the gold of the spiritual life.”
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“Solitude is the workshop where God carves the inner man.”
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“He who has lost himself for God has found everything.”
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“Love is its own theology.”
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“In the darkness beyond distinct manner of existing, all multiplicity disappears and the spirit loses what is its own. It disappears with regard to its own activity. This is the highest goal and the 'where' beyond boundaries. In this the spirituality of all spirits ends. Here to lose oneself forever is eternal happiness. To lose oneself forever is eternal happiness”
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“Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars . Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars”
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“In this wild mountain region of the 'where' beyond God there is an abyss full of play and feeling for all pure spirits .”
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“It is hidden for everything that is not God, except for those with whom he wants to share Himself.”
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“Now these people who are taken within, These people who are taken within, because of their boundless immanent oneness with God, see themselves as always and eternally existing because of their boundless immanent oneness with God, see themselves as always and eternally existing”
The Little Book of Truth