Johannes Tauler
Johannes Tauler
Johannes Tauler OPwas a German mystic, a Catholic preacher and a theologian. A disciple of Meister Eckhart, he belonged to the Dominican order. Tauler was known as one of the most important Rhineland Mystics. He promoted a certain neo-platonist dimension in the Dominican spirituality of his time...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
CountryGermany
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God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.
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Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
sinking depends nothingness
Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.
what-matters matter ready
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
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To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
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I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.