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Johannes Tauler
Johannes Tauler
German Theologian
Born: 1300
Died: 1361
God Good Heart Will You Yourself
Related authors: Albert Schweitzer Dietrich Bonhoeffer Friedrich Schleiermacher Jakob Bohme Johann Kaspar Lavater Karl Rahner Paul Tillich Rudolf Otto
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. Johannes Tauler
Wisdom Silence Knowledge Man Learning Speak School Live Humility Spirit Through Because Learns How Forgetting Dying To Live By
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. Johannes Tauler
God Day You Will Fall Too Seventy Rise Return Times Often
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. Johannes Tauler
Love Soul Other Everyone Guests Gifts Must Finds Remain Entry Outside He Occupied His Offering Often Cannot Gain Which Turn Therefore Away Things Desire
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
God You Blessed Nothing Every Meditations Exalted Sacrament Like Himself Devout Exercise Practise Pious Godly Manage May Your Comparison Profound
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
Saying Prayer Thoughts You Believe Reciting Consists Beads Allow Never Mere True Roam Psalms While Your Many Babbling
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. Johannes Tauler
God You Yourself Own Faults Enter Must Weaknesses Inward Discern Confront Then Separate Your Ground
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
Prayer Achieve Our Everything Backs Must Temporal Divine True Want Turn Really External
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
God Way Gifts Lies Touch He Another Equally Inequality His Quite Moves Wants Which Much Warnings Received Desires
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
Grace Fall Lose Apt Though Only Mortal Sin Nevertheless Make Ready Sins Themselves Us Inclined Even Harm
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. Johannes Tauler
You Heart Yourself Strong Overcome Enemies Looking Tell Thousand Must Only No-One Cruel Know Ties Within Still Break Which Your Many

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