Babbling, reciting prayers…
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.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Accept all as from God…
Be silent, endure, and accept all as from God, that you may learn to know yourself thereby.
–Johannes Tauler (1300–1361)
All sins harm us…
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.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Between time and eternity…
Children, our souls ever stand on the boundary line between time and eternity. If we turn toward time, we shall without doubt forget eternity, and soon be led far away from the things of God.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
A judging spirit…
He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Believe that Christ is present…
Richard of Saint Victor says: “I receive Christ not alone on the Cross, but also in His Transfiguration on Mount Tabor.” That is to say, in all our distresses, in all our painful inward destitution, we may boldly believe that Christ is present with us.
–Johannes Tauler (1300–1361)
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