Johannes Tauler Quotes

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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!

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  Heart, Silence, Looks

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• 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; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.

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  Strong, Heart, Ties

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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.

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  School, Humility, Men

  Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384

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• 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; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

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  Offering, Soul, Desire

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

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  Sinking, Depends, Nothingness

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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, Foundation, Body

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

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  Giving, Soul, Your Soul

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

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  Religious, Exercise, Meditation

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• Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

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  Humble, Judging, Sincerely

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

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  Weakness, Inward, Faults

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• 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.

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  Heart, Men, Years

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

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  What Matters, Matter, Ready

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• 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.

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  Love, Spring, Men

  "The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: With Twenty-five of His Sermons".

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• He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

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  Spiritual, Fall, Men

  "The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)".

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• 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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  God, Long, Water

  Gottesfreund (im Oberland.), Rulman Merswin, Johannes Tauler (1857). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (Temp. 1340)”, p.293

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• 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.

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  Nature, Grace, Soul

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• 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.

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  Christian, Prayer, Men

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

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  Prayer, Want, Achieve

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• 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.

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  Heaven, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of Heaven

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• In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

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  School, Humility, Humble

  Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384

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• 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.

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  Real, Humility, Judging

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

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  Men

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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.

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  Fashion, Prayer, Night

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

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  God, Rewards, Decided

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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.

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  Lying, Moving, Desire

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