The Golden Legend, Pt. VI, A travelling Scholastic affixing his Theses to the gate of the College.
Context: I think I have proved, by profound researches,
The error of all those doctrines so vicious
Of the old Areopagite Dyonisius,
That are making such terrible work in the churches,
By Michael the Stammerer sent from the East,
And done into Latin by that Scottish beast,
Erigena Johannes, who dares to maintain,
In the face of the truth, the error infernal,
That the universe is and must be eternal;
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,
That nothing with God can be accidental;
Then asserting that God before the creation
Could not have existed, because it is plain
That, had he existed, he would have created;
Which is begging the question that should be debated,
And moveth me less to anger than laughter.
All nature, he holds, is a respiration
Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter
Will inhale it into his bosom again,
So that nothing but God alone will remain.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 87.
Wim van den Dungen, The Spiritual Espousals, Book 3, The Third Life: the contemplative life (2013)
The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 263.
“He who has God alone for his leader, he alone is free.”
20.
Every Good Man is Free
"No More Stress or Tension" in Plus : The Magazine of Positive Thinking (May 1986), p. 22
“Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee now!”
The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 19.
From The Goad, the Flames, the Arrows and the Mirror of the love of God
