Meister Eckhart: Quotes about God (page 2)

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“Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.”

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“Every creature is a word of God.”

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“As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.”

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Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

Love , God , Light

“God can dispense with us just as little as we can dispense with him.”

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Gott kann uns ebensowenig entbehren wie wir ihn.
Sermon 49

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“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.”

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Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

Love , Life , God , Spring

“As the peculiar faculty of the eye is to see form and colour, and of the ear to hear sweet tones and voices, so is aspiration peculiar to the soul. To relax from ceaseless aspiration is sin. This energy of aspiration directed to and grasping God, as far as is possible for the creature, is called Hope, which is also a divine virtue. Through this faculty the soul acquires such great confidence that she deems nothing in the Divine Nature beyond her reach.”

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Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

God , Hope , Soul , Confidence

“The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.”

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Sermon V : The Self-Communication of God
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

God , Soul , Nature

“A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.”

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Sermon IV : True Hearing
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

God , Angels , Question , Tree

“A person should never be satisfied with a thought God, for when the thought perishes, the God also perishes.”

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Der Mensch soll sich nicht genügen lassen an einem gedachten Gott; denn wenn der Gedanke vergeht, so vergeht auch der Gott.
Deutsche Predigten und Traktate (1963), p. 60

God , Personality

“We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.”

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Quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 232

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“The inner work is first of all the work of God's grace in the depth of the soul which subsequently distributes itself among the faculties of the soul, in that of Reason appearing as Belief, in that of Will as Love, and in that of Desire as Hope. When the Divine Light penetrates the soul, it is united with God as light with light. This is the light of faith. Faith bears the soul to heights unreachable by her natural senses and faculties.”

Meister Eckhart

Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

Love , God , Faith , Hope

“Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.”

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Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation (1941) by Raymond Bernard Blakney, p. 240

God , Truth

“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. Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.”

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Sermon 9, as translated in The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church (1999) by Hughes Oliphant Old, Ch. 9: The German Mystics, p. 449

God , Soul , Knowledge , Angels

“If a man had no more to do with God than to be thankful, that would suffice.”

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However a quote very similar to this one can actually be found in his works. In Sermon XXVII (Walshe translation/in Quint Sermon XXXIV) we can read:

Middle High German: Haete der mensche niht me ze tuonne mit gote, dan daz er dankbaere ist, ez waere genuoc.
Disputed

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“God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.”

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As translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991) edited by Stephen Mitchell, p. 115

God , Peace , Heart

“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”

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Circulated on the Internet, this is an amended version of a quote from Eckhart's sermon iusti vivent in aeternum: There are simple people who imagine they are going to see God as if He were standing here and they there. This is not true. God and I are one.
Middle High German: “Sumlîche einveltige liute wænent, sie süln got sehen, als er dâ stande und sie hie. Des enist niht. Got und ich wir sîn ein.”
Disputed

Knowledge , God , Imagination , People

“The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without.”

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Quoted by Aldous Huxley, in The Perennial Philosophy https://archive.org/details/perennialphilosp035505mbp (1945)

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