Author: Johannes Tauler

Quotes

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

- Johannes Tauler

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.

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.

- Johannes Tauler

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

- Johannes Tauler

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

- Johannes Tauler

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

- Johannes Tauler

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

- Johannes Tauler

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

- Johannes Tauler

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.

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.

- Johannes Tauler

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

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

- Johannes Tauler

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