Richard Rolle

“ The limbs that move, the eyes that see,
these are not entirely me;
Dead men and women helped to shape,
the mold that I do not escape;
The words I speak, the written line, these
are not uniquely mine. ”

“ The fourth is that we think how much that the joy is that they shall have which last and endure in God's love into their ending; for they shall be brethren and fellow with angels and holy men, loving and having praising, and seeing the King of Joy, in the fairhead and the shining of His majesty; the which sight shall be meat and all delights that any creature may think, and more than any man may tell to all his lovers withouten end. ”

“ Another is uncertainty of our ending; for we wit never when we shall die, nor how we shall die, nor whither we shall go when we be dead; and that God will that it be uncertain to us, for He wills that we alway be ready to die. ”