Johannes Tauler

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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Man must do his part and detach himself from created things. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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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

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Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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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. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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