Man must do his part and detach himself from created things. Johannes Tauler More Quotes by Johannes Tauler More Quotes From Johannes Tauler Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God. Johannes Tauler 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 desire lying moving 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. Johannes Tauler psalms prayer believe Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us? Johannes Tauler ignorant depth self 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. Johannes Tauler demise grace fall 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 fashion prayer night 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! Johannes Tauler godly blessed exercise If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. Johannes Tauler turn-to-god return fall You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One. Johannes Tauler holy grows world 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 tongue green heart 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. Johannes Tauler humility real judging What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God. Johannes Tauler ready what-matters matter Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are. Johannes Tauler creation sin letting-go If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. Johannes Tauler achieve prayer want I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out. Johannes Tauler society home men Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. Johannes Tauler own like blind self 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. Johannes Tauler short man voice god
