Meister Eckhart Quotes

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.