Johannes Tauler Quotes

• Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

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

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

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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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• 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.

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• Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

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• 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.

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

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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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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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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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Johannes Tauler (28)

Birth:	1300
Death:	1361
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Preacher, Theologian

About

Johannes Tauler was born in Strasbourg. He was a German mystic, a Catholic preacher and a theologian. He was known as one of the most important Rhineland Mystics. He was educated at the Dominican convent at Strasbourg and the studium generale at Cologne, he later became a lector at Strassburg. During a period of exile, he preached and lectured in Basel, Switzerland. He wrote several books include: The Following of Christ, Meditations on the life and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, The Inner Way, and Spiritual Conferences.

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