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.
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
When you are falling --- Dive!
Most women I know have been harassed in some way. And you never wanted to report it, because you were afraid of losing your job or you felt like, hey, did that just happen? I think it's good that women now... have the courage! Because it's not easy.
One thing I just want to say to the military families - while you might not wear a uniform, I know - we all know, the nation knows - that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you donβt do or say anything, itβs not real compassion.
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