Quotes by Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) — Mystiker · Katholisch · Deutschland
Meister Eckhart (um 1260–1328) war ein deutscher Dominikaner, Theologe und Philosoph, der an der Universität Paris sowie in Erfurt, Straßburg und Köln wirkte. Als führender Vertreter der rheinischen Mystik lehrte er das Loslassen aller Eigeninteressen („Gelassenheit“) und das göttliche Wirken im Seelengrund, was zu einem Inquisitionsverfahren und der postumen Verurteilung einzelner Sätze durch Papst Johannes XXII. führte. Für Bibelleser eröffnet seine Seelenmystik einen radikalen Zugang zur christlichen Innerlichkeit, der das Loslassen vorgefasster Gottesbilder einfordert.
Era: The Middle Ages
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Humility & Pride, Faith & Trust, Love, Growth & Character, Prayer & Silence, Service & Love of Neighbour, Grace & Redemption
Quotes by Meister Eckhart
The person who does not have God while mucking out the stable does not have him during choir prayer either.
Meister Eckhart
The most important hour is always the present. The most important person is always the one standing right before you. The most important deed is always love.
Meister Eckhart
Love knows no why.
Meister Eckhart
God is always in us; only we are seldom at home.
Meister Eckhart
If it is not the will that is lacking in you, but only the ability, you have fully done it before God.
Meister Eckhart
We ask God to help us out of a divided life into a life that is one.
Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you speak throughout your entire life is Thank you, that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
Never has a human being longed for anything as much as God longs to bring man to become aware of God.
Meister Eckhart
But if one truly has God, one has him everywhere; in the street and among people just as much as in church or in solitude or in the cell.
Meister Eckhart
Whoever seeks God in an outward ritual finds the ritual and loses God.
Meister Eckhart
We celebrate Christmas so that this birth may also happen within us. If it does not happen in me, what does it profit me? That it also happens in me—therein lies everything.
Meister Eckhart
Go entirely out of yourself for love of God, and God will go entirely out of himself for love of you. What remains then is simple unity.
Meister Eckhart
Where the creature ends, there God's being begins. All that God most urgently demands of you is to go out of yourself, where you are creature, and let God be God in you.
Meister Eckhart
Had Mary not first given spiritual birth to God's Son in her soul, he would never have been born of her in the flesh.
Meister Eckhart
Our speaking is but stammering when we try to speak of the divine nature.
Meister Eckhart
The mightiest preachers are good works.
Meister Eckhart
Where I want nothing for myself, there God wills in my place.
Meister Eckhart
This is right fear: to fear that one might lose God.
Meister Eckhart
If someone says he has known God, and imagines something by that, then he has known something, but not God.
Meister Eckhart
God can do no less without us than we can do without him.
Meister Eckhart
God is also in all places, and in every place God is wholly present. This means that all places are a place of God.
Meister Eckhart
No one worships God rightly except the person who worships God for God's sake alone, and means nothing else in it but God.
Meister Eckhart
There is no better measure of love than trust.
Meister Eckhart
A soul that clings to many things distances itself from God.
Meister Eckhart
So it is with all those who love God for the sake of outward riches or inner comfort; but they do not love God rightly, they love their own advantage.
Meister Eckhart
In every sin there is pride. For every sin is only sin in that it rises up against or circumvents God's command.
Meister Eckhart
God is threefold in person and yet simple in nature.
Meister Eckhart
God is incorporeal, immaterial, imperceptible, beyond quantity and description, beyond form and shape.
Meister Eckhart
One should never regard oneself as far from God, neither because of a guilt nor a weakness nor anything else. And even if your great sins have driven you so far away that you cannot consider yourself near to God, you should still accept God as near to you.
Meister Eckhart
Sources: britannica.com, wikipedia.org, mysticryst.com, jhu.edu
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