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Us Quotes by Meister Eckhart
- People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their…
- The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is;…
- Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not…
- Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us…
- The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
- There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach…
- The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However "sacred" a calling may be, as it…
- The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.
- What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.
- God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so…
- The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow…
- God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each…
- Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
- One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong