Quote by Meister Eckhart
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. – Meister Eckhart

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart

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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself. – Meister Eckhart

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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. – Meister Eckhart

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It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God. – Albert Barnes

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. – Abraham Lincoln

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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. – Edmund Burke

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Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me? – Annie Dillard

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