Mechthild of Magdeburg Quotes

Mechthild of Magdeburg , a Beguine, was a Christian medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit described her visions of God. She was the first mystic to write in German.

✵ 1210 – 1282
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Quotes

“What we know is as nothing, if we do not love God properly in all things.”

[Norris, K., The Cloister Walk, Penguin Publishing Group, 1997, 978-1-101-21566-1, http://books.google.com/books?id=pZkLNwpYcJ0C&pg=PT115]

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