Quotes from Johannes Tauler
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
- Johannes Tauler
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!
- Johannes Tauler
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
- Johannes Tauler
Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by 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
Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
- Johannes Tauler
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
- Johannes Tauler
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
- Johannes Tauler
Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.
- Johannes Tauler
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
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
- Johannes Tauler
As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
- Johannes Tauler