Ruysbroeck and the Mystics: with selections from Ruysbroeck

by Maurice Maeterlinck

The Nature of God

We must consider and examine the sublime nature of God: how it is simplicity and purity; height that cannot be scaled and depth that cannot be sounded; breadth without understanding and length without end; awful silence and the savage wilderness; rest of all saints in the union and in the common joy which He shares with His saints throughout eternity.