Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–c. 1328) was a German theologian, philosopher, and mystic in the Dominican order. Eckhart was tried as a heretic during the Inquisition but died before a verdict was delivered.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.