Best quotes by Meister Eckhart on God

Checkout quotes by Meister Eckhart on God

• ‟ God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

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• ‟ The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

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• ‟ Every creature is a word of God.

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• ‟ To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

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• ‟ God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

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• ‟ We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

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• ‟ Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

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• ‟ One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

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• ‟ All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

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• ‟ If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

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