“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

— Meister Eckhart

As translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991) edited by Stephen Mitchell, p. 115
Variant: God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

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German theologian 1260–1328

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