Johannes Tauler
Johannes Tauler
Johannes Tauler OPwas a German mystic, a Catholic preacher and a theologian. A disciple of Meister Eckhart, he belonged to the Dominican order. Tauler was known as one of the most important Rhineland Mystics. He promoted a certain neo-platonist dimension in the Dominican spirituality of his time...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
CountryGermany
men
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
letting-go sin creation
Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
prayer want achieve
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
blessed heart long
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.
blessed exercise godly
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!
god rewards decided
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
self ignorant hens
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
prayer believe psalms
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.
humble judging sincerely
Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.
heaven kingdoms kingdom-of-heaven
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
world holy grows
You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
fall return turn-to-god
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
god water long
God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.
love spring men
For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.