Johannes Tauler Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.”

“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.”

“You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.”

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

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

“A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.”

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