Meister Eckhart

“The heart that loves is always in the right place.”

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

“To love one that hates you, to serve one that strikes you, to reward one that injures you.”

“Compassion means justice.”

“God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.”

“To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.”

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.”

“My eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light.”

“When we are in deep distress, then the light is nearest to us.”

“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”

“Every creature is a word of God.”

“All creatures are gladly doing the best they can to express God.”

“The least creature in God is more excellent than the highest angel apart from God.”

“God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.”

“The greatest honor we can give to God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”

“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”

“The greatest act of love is not to feel it, but to be it.”