Johannes Tauler Quotes

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• Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
• Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.
• In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.
• God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
• Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.
• He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall…
• In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask…
• 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…
• Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of…
• 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…
• God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and…
• Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make…
• Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is…
• What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
• In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by…
• You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break.…
• As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
• If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
• In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will…
• If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

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