Johannes Tauler Quotes on God (12 Quotes)

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

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.

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

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.