If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of resilience and faith in overcoming challenges.
Johannes Tauler's quote speaks to the necessity of perseverance in the face of failure. It suggests that regardless of how many times one may stumble, what truly matters is the ability to rise again, with the support of faith or a higher power, rather than succumbing to despair. The act of returning to God symbolizes seeking guidance and strength to face life's challenges more effectively.
In practice
This quote can be used to encourage students who are facing academic struggles to keep trying.
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.
Racism kills people. It kills people!
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
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