18 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
We read in the Gospels that Our Lord fed many people with five loaves and two fishes. Speaking parabolically, we may say that the first loaf was — that we should know ourselves, what we have been everlastingly to God, and what we now are to Him.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal — in the serene region of the everlasting Present.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or, he may be in Church and be aware of God; but, if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him. He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)