Meister Eckhart Quotes about Faith

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Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

Meister Eckhart

Faith, Giving, Be Prepared

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

Meister Eckhart

Faith, Lying, Giving

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

Meister Eckhart

God, Faith, Eye

Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.

Meister Eckhart

Faith, Thinking, People

To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.

Meister Eckhart

Faith, Gone Away, Giving

Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

Meister Eckhart

Faith, Heart, Years

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

Meister Eckhart

Faith, Order, Acting

Meister Eckhart, Bernard McGinn, Frank J. Tobin (1986). “Meister Eckhart, Teacher and Preacher”, p.250, Paulist Press