“If "thank you" is the only prayer you can utter in your lifetime, that would be enough.”

Very commonly attributed to Eckhart on the internet and some publications, the source of the first formulation however is: A Bucket of Surprises‎ (2002) by J. John and Mark Stibbe.
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German theologian 1260–1328

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