Great Throughts Treasury

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Ramon Llul, aka Raymond Lully, Raymond Lull, Raimundus, Raymundus Lullus or Lullius

Catalan Majorcan Writer, Mystic, Poet, Philosopher, Logician and Franciscan Tertiary

"Between hope and fear, love makes her home. She lives on thought, and then she is forgotten, dies. So unlike the pleasure of this world are their foundations."

"Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth."

"It is easier to apperceive in them [human beings], in more perfect form than in any other creature, the secrets of nature."

"Whoever would seek and apperceive the secrets of human beings should look in themselves and in their nature and in their own attributes. Just as one mirror displays the form of the other mirror in itself, so will one who knows one's own nature apperceive the secrets that are sought in human beings."

"Through the harmony that is present in the substance of the soul by nature,..the soul is lasting and incorruptible."

"In the beautiful arrangement and ordering through which we recognize the world as something beautiful and orderly, Lord, we understand and apperceive intellectually your great wisdom and your great power and your great justice and your sweet mercy and all your other virtues."

"Imagination is a kind of mediator, opening the way to the activity of the intelligible and spiritual life of the human being"

"Human understanding is sufficient to apperceive that the world has a creator."

"No science or knowledge is complete without the science of the love of God."

"If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good."

"Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being."

"Man is nobler for his knowledge than for the gold and goods he possesses, even though these be gained with great good will."

"Ah! Divine, infinite, sovereign good, which is origin and fulfillment of all good! To your holy goodness, O Lord, I give reverence and honor."

"In the grandeur that we see in the world, we apperceive Your grandeur, for a world so grand as this signifies that its Creator is most grand and marvelous."

"If people want to seek You [God], they can find You everywhere, at every place and every shortcut. No science or knowledge is complete without the science of the love of God."

"God is a single essence with multiple attributes, or as [Ramon] Lull says, is 'the being in which Goodness, Grandeur, Eternity, and the other Dignities convert each other reciprocally.'"

"Just as there is only one God, Father, Creator, and Lord of everything that exists, so all peoples could unite and become one people? giving glory and praise to our Lord God."

"Lord and creator of all that is... creatures signify and demonstrate your great nobility and goodness."

"Lord, the soul that sees your virtues and your perfection and your goodness sees itself in your virtue and in your goodness."

"The One is the perfection of everything."

"We have one God, one Creator? and we should love and help one another."

"Your love, which is perfect in Your perfect goodness, greatness, eternity, power, wisdom ? that love of Yours, O Lord, I worship and love, and do it, with all my will, with all the strength of my intellect and with all that Your love has seen fit to give me, I give everything, O Lord, to serve and honor and praise Your love every day of my life."