Henry Suso Quotes on Love
Heinrich Seuse, known in English as Henry Suso, was a German Dominican mystic, preacher, and spiritual director and one of the principal figures of the Rhineland mystical tradition along with Meister Eckhart and Johannes Tauler. This page collects quotes attributed to Henry Suso on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Henry Suso:
“Eternal Wisdom is the bride of every faithful soul.”
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Attributed to Henry Suso:
“He who has lost himself for God has found everything.”
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Attributed to Henry Suso:
“Love is its own theology.”
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“Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.”
Quoted in Evelyn Underhill , Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 152 -
“An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.”
Quoted in Karl An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian Bihlmeyer, Heinrich Seuse. Deutsche Schriften , Stuttgart 1907, p. 199 -
“Quoted in Karl An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian Bihlmeyer, Heinrich Seuse. Deutsche Schriften , Stuttgart 1907, p. 199”
An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.