Beads Quote by Johannes Tauler

“Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.”

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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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Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they…

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Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

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He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he…

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Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

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God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way…

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Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you…

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I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

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Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for…

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God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things;…

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