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

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

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 21, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without." by Meister Eckhart?
Meister Eckhart photo
Meister Eckhart 69
German theologian 1260–1328

Related quotes

Nicholas of Cusa photo

“Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself.”

Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer

Nicholas of Cusa and Jasper Hopkins (Translator). On Equality. 1459.

Thomas à Kempis photo

“The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.”

Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular

Source: The Inner Life

Henry Edward Manning photo

“God knows that I would rather stand in the lowest place within the Truth, than in the highest without it. Nay, outside the Truth the higher the worse. It is only so much more opposition to Truth, so much more propagation of falsehood.”

Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892) English Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal

Letter to Robert Wilberforce (Rome, 15 February 1848); in Edmund Sheridan Purcell, Life of Cardinal Manning, Vol. I (London: Macmillan and Co., 1896), p. 513.

Rick Warren photo

“The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

John of St. Samson photo

“The more a person strives after God, the more earnest he will become--the les he will converse with men.”

John of St. Samson (1571–1636)

From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

Christopher Paolini photo
Bill Clinton photo
Nicholas Ferrar photo
Fyodor Dostoyevsky photo

Related topics