Johannes Tauler

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

— Johannes Tauler

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

— Johannes Tauler

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

— Johannes Tauler

Become a fertile ground for the divine birth. Cherish this deep silence within, nourish it frequently.

— Johannes Tauler

May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood

— Johannes Tauler

If one would a prepare an empty place in the depths of the soul If there were a void on earth the heaven would fall to fill it….

— Johannes Tauler

So you must be silent. He will come in to you; no more, no less….

— Johannes Tauler

When shall we find an know more completely ours than anything we have ever called our own.

— Johannes Tauler

Even then take heart! The Lord is certainly nearby. Hold fast to the support of the true living faith. Things will be fine. But it is unbelievable to the poor soul in its tortured state that this unbearable darkness could ever turn into light.

— Johannes Tauler

The mystery of our union with God affected by the Eucharist, is a union more intimate than the human mind can conceive.

— Johannes Tauler

It is impossible for us in words to describe the ineffable dignity of the soul, and we cannot in any way comprehend it. If we had here with us a human being in his primal nobility, pure as Adam in paradise in his natural state apart from grace, his simple nature unadorned — that person would be so luminous and pure, so ravishing and richly favoured by God that no one would be able to comprehend his purity nor with his reason conceive of it.

— Johannes Tauler

This food of love draws the soul above distinction or difference, beyond resemblance to divine unity. This is what happens to the transfigured spirit. When the divine heat of love has drawn out all the moisture, heaviness, unfitness, then this holy food plunges such a one into the life of God. As Our Lord himself said to St Augustine, "I am the food of the strong: believe and feast on me. You will not change me into yourself; rather you will be changed into me".

— Johannes Tauler