Best Johannes Tauler Quotes
- To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. Confront
- You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One. Closer
- Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times… Blessed
- 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… All
- Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. Dying
- God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in… All
- 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… Bloom
- A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. Beneficial
- Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we… Cannot Gain
- Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of… Alexandria