If you fall…
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Cherish this deep silence within…
Become a fertile ground for the divine birth. Cherish this deep silence within, nourish it frequently.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
God draws them…
[God] draws them so mysteriously unto Himself and His own blessedness; their spirits are so lovingly attracted, while they are at the same time so filled and transfused with the Godhead, that they lose all their diversity in the Unity of the Godhead.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
The Blessed Sacrament…
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practice 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 (c. 1300-1361)
Detachment from things…
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Contemplative prayer…
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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