Author: Johannes Tauler

Quotes

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

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

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

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

- Johannes Tauler

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

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

- Johannes Tauler

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

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

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

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

- Johannes Tauler

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.

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.

- Johannes Tauler

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