Meister Eckhart Quotes on God
Meister Eckhart was a German Dominican theologian, philosopher, and mystic. This page collects quotes attributed to Meister Eckhart on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.”
Sermon IV : True Hearing -
Attributed to Meister Eckhart:
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
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Attributed to Meister Eckhart:
“God is at home; we are in the far country.”
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“Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.”
Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation (1941) by Raymond Bernard Blakney, p. 240 -
“The most powerful prayer , one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind . The quieter it is the more powerful , the worthier , the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self -seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.”
As translated in A Dazzling Darkness: An Anthology of Western Mysticism (1985) by Patrick Grant -
“God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart .”
As translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991) edited by Stephen Mitchell , p. 115 -
“As translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991) edited by Stephen Mitchell , p. 115”
God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart . -
“Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God . ... To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.”
As quoted in Men Who Have Walked with God (1992) by Sheldon Cheney, p. 198 -
“As quoted in Men Who Have Walked with God (1992) by Sheldon Cheney, p. 198”
Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God . ... To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God. -
“We are all meant to be mothers of God , for God is always needing to be born .”
As quoted in Christianity (1995) by Joe Jenkins, p. 27