Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
About Richard Rolle
Richard Rollewas an English hermit, mystic, and religious writer. He is also known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole, since at the end of his life he lived near a Cistercian nunnery in Hampole, now in South Yorkshire.
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The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.
English hermit and religious writer (c.1300-1349)
It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.
English hermit and religious writer (c.1300-1349)
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
English hermit and religious writer (c.1300-1349)
The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.
English hermit and religious writer (c.1300-1349)
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
English hermit and religious writer (c.1300-1349)
Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.
English hermit and religious writer (c.1300-1349)