Top 248 Quotes & Sayings by Meister Eckhart - Page 5

When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.

To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.

Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

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.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!