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Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

Johannes Tauler
Fall, Grace, Demise

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

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Heart, Green, Tongue
Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.86, Paulist Press

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler
Fall, Return, Turn To God
Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.166, Paulist Press

Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us?

Johannes Tauler
Self, Ignorant, Depth

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

Johannes Tauler
Letting Go, Sin, Creation

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Johannes Tauler

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
Blessed, Heart, Long

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Johannes Tauler
Prayer, Believe, Psalms

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

Johannes Tauler
Blessed, Godly, Exercise

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

Johannes Tauler
World, Holy, Grows

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

Johannes Tauler
Home, Men, Society
Gottesfreund (im Oberland.), Rulman Merswin, Johannes Tauler (1857). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (Temp. 1340)”, p.204

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