Meister Eckhart Quotes

The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

It is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what is I will do it.

God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.

In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.

If we have trouble hearing Him, He will faithfully work in our lives until we are pointed in the direction He wants us to go.

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.

We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.

The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love–because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.