44 quotes
All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love, for love is the foundation of all the commandments.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
To the quiet mind all things are possible.
A Dazzling Darkness: An Anthology of Western Mysticism (1985)
Grace is from God, and works in the depth of the soul whose powers it employs. It is a light which issues forth to do service under the guidance of the Spirit.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
A Dazzling Darkness: An Anthology of Western Mysticism (1985)
The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without.
We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.
Christianity (1995)
God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991)
The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind.
A Dazzling Darkness: An Anthology of Western Mysticism (1985)
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation (1941)
We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007)
Whoso will hear the wisdom of the Father must dwell deep, and abide at home, and be at unity with himself.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
God is a God of the present. How he finds you, so he takes and receives you, not as that which you have been, but as that which you now are.
When God has sent his angel to me, then I know of a surety. ... When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, "Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed."
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)