Quotes by Johannes Tauler

Johannes Tauler

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

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As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

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Wine

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.

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Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Fashion

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Prayer

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

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Nothingness

Sinking

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Love

Men

Spring

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Giving

Soul

Your Soul

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

Christian

Men

Prayer

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Decided

God

Rewards

God is infinite and without end, but the soul’s desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

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Water

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Quotes by Johannes Tauler

Johannes Tauler

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

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.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

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

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

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