All things Quote by Meister Eckhart Download Open image “When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.” — Meister Eckhart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare All things Learning Men Mere Understanding
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come? — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
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What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to receive the body of our Lord does not need to scrutinize what they are feeling at the time or how great… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“But where is this true possession of God, whereby we really possess him, to be found? This real possession of God is to be… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto. — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
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When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
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Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image