Meister Eckhart Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Giving, Be Prepared

• What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

  Meister Eckhart

  Mother, Peace, Son

• Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

  Meister Eckhart

  Giving, Birth, Awareness

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

• A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.

  Meister Eckhart

  Prayer, Lying, Men

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

• Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Giving, Worry

• The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Angel, Ideas, Giving

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

• God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Lying, Giving

• Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

  Meister Eckhart

  Prayer, People, Giving

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

• There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

  Meister Eckhart

  Giving Up, Honor, Half

• What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment.

  Meister Eckhart

  Lying, Creating, Long

• To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Gone Away, Giving

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

• The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most like God. And it may well be true, for the soul at its highest is formed like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. For this reason the angel was sent to the soul, so that the soul might be re-formed by it, to be the divine idea by which it was first conceived.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Angel, Son

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

• The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Son, Giving

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.38, Cosimo, Inc.

• To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

  Meister Eckhart

  Jobs, Giving Up, Two

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

• It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

  Meister Eckhart

  Blessing, Hands, Opposites

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