Meister Eckhart Quotes

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

The Lord is always there waiting to give us his love: it is an amazing thing, one which never ceases to surprise us!

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

God is a name we give to love.

Where there is love, there is God also.

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Where love is, there God is also.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

God to me is love.

I experience God as the power of love.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.

Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.