“Be steadfast and never rest content until you have obtained the now of eternity as your present possession in this life, so far as this is possible to human infirmity.”

—  Henry Suso

Quoted in Gerald Vann, The Divine Pity (1945). London: Fontana Books, 1956, p. 25

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Dominican friar and mystic 1295–1366

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