Meister Eckhart Faith Quotations

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

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.

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.

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

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