Johannes Tauler Quotes
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Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
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When shall we find an know this birth of God within us? Only when we concentrate all our faculties within us and direct them all towards God. Then he will be born in us and make himself our very own. He will give himself to us as our own, more completely ours than anything we have ever called our own.
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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.
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One man can spin, another can make shoes, and all these are gifts of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, if I were not a priest, I should esteem it a great gift that I was able to make shoes, and I would try to make them so well as to be a pattern to all
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Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.
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Become a fertile ground for the divine birth. Cherish this deep silence within, nourish it
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Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
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Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
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If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
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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.
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What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
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May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood
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You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
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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.
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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.