God Quotes by Meister Eckhart

“Isness is God.”

— Meister Eckhart

God is greater than God.

— Meister Eckhart

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

— Meister Eckhart

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

— Meister Eckhart

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

— Meister Eckhart

God is the word that speaks itself.

— Meister Eckhart

God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.

— Meister Eckhart

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

— Meister Eckhart

God is not good, or else he could do better.

— Meister Eckhart

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

— Meister Eckhart

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me...”

— Meister Eckhart

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

— Meister Eckhart

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

— Meister Eckhart

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

— Meister Eckhart

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

— Meister Eckhart

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

— Meister Eckhart

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

— Meister Eckhart

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

— Meister Eckhart

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no…

— Meister Eckhart

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself - and let God be God in you'? One…

— Meister Eckhart

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are…

— Meister Eckhart

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us…

— Meister Eckhart

Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from…

— Meister Eckhart

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for…

— Meister Eckhart

Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in…

— Meister Eckhart

What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving…

— Meister Eckhart

“Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and a book about…

— Meister Eckhart

“For whoever does not truly have God within themselves, but must constantly receive him in one external thing after another, seeking God…

— Meister Eckhart

My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon…

— Meister Eckhart

“But many people want to look upon God with the eyes with which they look upon a cow; they want to love…

— Meister Eckhart

Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.

— Meister Eckhart

That's all an angel is…an idea of God.

— Meister Eckhart

God is at home. We are in the far country.

— Meister Eckhart

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

— Meister Eckhart

God is equally near in all creatures.

— Meister Eckhart

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

— Meister Eckhart

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

— Meister Eckhart

“Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God.”

— Meister Eckhart

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

— Meister Eckhart

Every creature is a word of God.

— Meister Eckhart