Richard Rolle

“ 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. ”

“ If we waste it in earthly love and vanities, full grievously may we be deemed and punished. Therefore it is one of the most sorrows that may be, but [3] we enforce us namely in the love of God, and do good to all that we may, the while that our short time lasteth. And each time that we think not on God, we may account it as the time that we have lost. ”