"Between God and me there is no 'between.'"

-- Meister Eckhart

"What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pores out in love."

-- Meister Eckhart

"If someone were in such ecstasy as came to St. Paul, and knew of a sick man who needed a bowl of soup from him, I would judge it far better that for love he should forget his ecstasy and rather serve the needy one."

-- Meister Eckhart

"Even if our life be very small, if we grasp it to the extent that it is being, then it is more noble than anything that ever attained life."

-- Meister Eckhart

"He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is."

-- Meister Eckhart

"He who knew nothing other than creatures would have no need for thinking of sermons, for each creature is full of God and is a book."

-- Meister Eckhart

"All that one can do is marvel at the magnificence and diversity of God's creation."

-- Meister Eckhart

"I pray to God that I be quit of God."

-- Meister Eckhart

"The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to his inpouring."

-- Meister Eckhart

"To grasp God in all things -- this is the sign of your new birth."

-- Meister Eckhart

"No one gets as much of God as those who are thoroughly dead."

-- Meister Eckhart

"All you can say of God is not true."

-- Meister Eckhart

"If the only prayer you say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' that would suffice."

-- Meister Eckhart

"Every creature is full of God and is a book about God."

-- Meister Eckhart