Richard Rolle Quotes

Richard Rolle — English Writer

Richard Rolle was 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, Yorkshire. In the words of Nicholas Watson, scholarly research has shown that "uring the fifteenth century he was one of the most widely read of English writers, whose works survive in nearly four hundred English...and at least seventy Continental manuscripts, almost all written between 1390 and 1500.".. (wikipedia)

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.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.