Meister Eckhart

Theologian, Philosopher

Meister Eckhart was a medieval Christian mystic and theologian known for his teachings on the nature of God and the soul, particularly in his work 'Sermons'.

Born
January 1, 1260
Died
January 1, 1328
Quotes
246
Rank
#289

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"Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says."

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"I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good."

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"The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances."

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"My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read."

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"If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this."

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"In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same."

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"My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow."

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"I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God."

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"There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone."

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"God is the word that speaks itself."

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"To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way."

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"Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him."

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"The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He"

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"The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most like God. And it may well be true, for the soul at its highest is formed like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. For this reason the angel was sent to the soul, so that the soul might be re-formed by it, to be the divine idea by which it was first conceived."

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"God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it."

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"Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul."

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"As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things."

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"All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you"

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"Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . ."

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"Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work."

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