Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Then there opens up a very deserted road, which is wholly somber and solitary. On this road God takes back all that He has given. Man is then so completely abandoned to himself that he no longer knows whether he is on the right road… and this becomes so painful to him that this vast world seems to narrow to him. He has no longer any feeling of his God, he no longer knows anything about Him, and everything else displeases him.
–Johannes Tauler (1300–1361)
Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
These clerical individuals merit especially severe punishment when they are hard of heart and disbelieving, because it is an extraordinary honor to be selected by God and called into the spiritual nobility of a clerical life. My children, we, the elected, accordingly owe God great love and above all things extreme gratitude.Thus the Lord punishes these people for their lack of faith and their hardness of heart.
–Johannes Tauler (1300-1361)
Eucharistic Adoration, Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually… even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Mercy is born of that love which we ought to exercise towards each other. If we do not, God will require it of us at the Judgement Day; and, where He findeth not the requisite mercy, He will refuse mercy, as He Himself has said.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Abandonment (of self), Detachment, Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
This becoming one with the Eternal Goodness cannot come to pass but by an absolute renunciation of our self, and all that is ours, natural or spiritual; for in the same measure that a man comes out from himself, in that measure does God enter in with His divine grace, and he who loses his life shall find it.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
–Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
