Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Blessed is the man who knows his weakness. This knowledge becomes for him the foundation and the beginning of his coming unto all good and beautiful things. When a man knows and perceives that he really and in truth is weak… Then, however, he recognizes the greatness of God’s help by comparing it with his own weakness. –Saint Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century)
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a scepter but a hoe.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
If things always went wrong, no one could endure it; if they always went well, anyone would become arrogant.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
