The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works Quotes

“It is pure love when you ask God neither for release from punishment nor for increase of reward, nor even for the sweetness of his love in this life – unless it happens that you desire the sweetness at a particular time, to refresh your spiritual powers so that they do not fail on the way – but when you ask God for nothing but himself. And you have neither care nor concern whether you will be in pain or in bliss, so long as you have him whom you love. This is pure love.”
― Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

“For spiritually heaven is as near down as up, and up as down, behind as in front, in front as behind, on one side as on the other, to such an extent that anyone who had a true desire to be in heaven would be there in spirit at that very moment.”
― Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

“And indeed a soul is as truly in the place where it loves as it is in the body that lives by it and to which it gives life.”
― Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

“For love may reach God in this life, but knowledge may not.”
― Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

“For time is made for man, and not man for time.”
― Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works