Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly,… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. — 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 give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share
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
