The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness. — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God. — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out. — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things;… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God.… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
“As long as a man has, he must give. And when he has nothing more, he is free. This freedom is far nobler than… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
