Light, Life and Love Quotes

“The Divine nature is Rest," he says in one of the German discourses; and in the Latin fragments we find: "God rests in Himself, and makes all things rest in Him.”
― William Ralph Inge, Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages

“the Father is the Fountain-head of the Son, and the Son is the outflowing of the Father; and the Father and Son pour forth the Spirit; and the Unity, which is the essence of the Fountain-head, is also the substance of the three Persons.”
― William Ralph Inge, Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages

“Therefore from the storehouse of His Passion I borrow the price of my debt,”
― William Ralph Inge, Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages

“it is a harder and a nobler task to preserve detachment in a crowd than in a cell; the little daily sacrifices of family life are often a greater trial than self-imposed mortifications.”
― William Ralph Inge, Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages

“two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.”
― William Ralph Inge, Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages