Johannes Tauler Quotes

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!

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.

You don’t have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

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.