Johannes Tauler Quotes

Judge yourself.. view

By: 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... view

By: Johannes Tauler

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

By: Johannes Tauler

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

By: Johannes Tauler

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received... view

By: Johannes Tauler

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine... view

By: Johannes Tauler

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

By: 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!.. view

By: Johannes Tauler

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature... view

By: Johannes Tauler

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us... view

By: Johannes Tauler

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

By: Johannes Tauler

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

By: Johannes Tauler

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things.. view

By: Johannes Tauler

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God... view

By: Johannes Tauler

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit... view

By: Johannes Tauler

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless.. view

By: 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... view

By: Johannes Tauler

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

By: Johannes Tauler

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

By: Johannes Tauler

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One... view

By: Johannes Tauler

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are.. view

By: Johannes Tauler

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like.. view

By: 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... view

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... view

By: 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... view

By: Johannes Tauler

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years... view

By: 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... view

By: Johannes Tauler

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

By: Johannes Tauler