Johannes Tauler

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

— Johannes Tauler

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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

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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. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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

— Johannes Tauler

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

— Johannes Tauler

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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

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

— Johannes Tauler

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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. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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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. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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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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