If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years. — 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
