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Johannes Tauler quotes: 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.

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 quotes: A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

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

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

Johannes Tauler quotes: I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

Johannes Tauler quotes: Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

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

Johannes Tauler quotes: Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

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

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 quotes: Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler quotes: Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

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

Johannes Tauler quotes: You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

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

Johannes Tauler quotes: Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

Johannes Tauler quotes: God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

Johannes Tauler quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The first type of captivity consists in man's dependence on creatures, animate or inanimate, when he loves them without reference to God.

The first type of captivity consists in man's dependence on creatures, animate or inanimate, when he loves them without reference to God.

Johannes Tauler quotes: As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

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

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

Johannes Tauler quotes: What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

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

Johannes Tauler quotes: Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

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

Johannes Tauler quotes: Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Johannes Tauler quotes: In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

Johannes Tauler quotes: Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.