Skip to content

Portrait of Meister Eckhart

Meister Eckhart

(1260–1328) Theology Teacher Germany

301 quotes in 846 categories

Meister Eckhart was a theology teacher from Germany, best known for Meister Eckhart.

Quick Facts About Meister Eckhart

Born: January 1, 1260
Died: February 5, 1328
Nationality: Germany
Profession: Theology Teacher
Notable works: Meister Eckhart

About Meister Eckhart

Eckhart von Hochheim, commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart, claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, was a German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic. He was born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Meister Eckhart · Page 7

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the…

Meister Eckhart

All things

Image

“The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.”

Meister Eckhart

God

Image

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

Meister Eckhart

Degrees

Image

“Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing…

Meister Eckhart

Delight

Image

A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which,…

Meister Eckhart

Doe

Image

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you…

Meister Eckhart

God

Image

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all…

Meister Eckhart

Birth

Image

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

Meister Eckhart

Absolute truth

Image

Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good…

Meister Eckhart

Adam

Image

“For God does not give us anything in order that we should enjoy its possession and rest content with it, nor has…

Meister Eckhart

Happiness

Image

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Meister Eckhart

Failure

Image

“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," it will be enough.”

Meister Eckhart

Life

Image

Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love,…

Meister Eckhart

Abiding

Image

“How can we be directly in God, neither striving nor seeking for anything other than him, and how can we be so…

Meister Eckhart

Image

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only…

Meister Eckhart

Answers

Image

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

Meister Eckhart

All things

Image

The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most…

Meister Eckhart

Angel

Image

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Meister Eckhart

Creation

Image

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

Meister Eckhart

Made

Image

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”

Meister Eckhart

Gratitude

Image

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel…

Meister Eckhart

Feels

Image

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

Meister Eckhart

Bed

Image

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are…

Meister Eckhart

Deeds

Image

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does…

Meister Eckhart

Bless

Image

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.

Meister Eckhart

Addiction

Image

Meister Eckhart by topic

God (66) Love (38) Inspirational (38) Ifs (34) Soul (33) Spirituality (29) Life (24) May (23) Men (21) Knows (18) Should (16) Religion (16) Giving (15) Spiritual (14) People (14)