Psalm 42:8 (HCSB) 8 The LORD will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night— a prayer to the God of my life.
Love penetrates the senses and storms the soul with all its power. When love grows in the soul, then it rises up with great longing to God and flowingly expands to receive the miracle that breaks in upon it. Love melts through the soul and into the senses. And so the body too gains its part and conforms in all ways to love.—Mechtild of Magdeburg (c. 1212-1282)
"Women in the Medieval Church," Christian History, no. 30. Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "LOVE".
