Johannes Tauler Quotes

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

God's desire is that we excel.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.