Johannes Tauler Quotes

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

I am athirst for God, the living God.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.

God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We're all crazy about each other because we're made in the image of Someone who's been crazy about us.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.

Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

God can only be comprehended as Love.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.