Meister Eckhart Quotes on God (17 Quotes)

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.

There is spirit in the soul, untouched by time and flesh, flowing from the Spirit, remaining in the Spirit, itself wholly spiritual. In this principle is God, ever verdant, ever flowering in all the joy and glory of His actual.

Every creature is a word of God.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

God is at home it is we who have gone for a walk.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had done the deed and I could, by a total will, do as great a sin as if I had killed the whole world, though I never actually did anything. Why, would the same not be possible to a good will Yes, indeed, and even much more so. Surely, I can do all things with the will. I can bear the sorrow of all men and feed all the poor and do the work of all men and whatever else you may think of. If it be not the will that fails you, but only the power, then truly, before God, you have done it all, and no man can take it from you or even hinder you for a moment for to will to do as soon as I can is the same before God as having done it.

The eyes that see God are the same eyes through which God sees me.

It is a fair trade and an equal exchange to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should b

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.