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.
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.
I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all._x000D_ But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was._x000D_ Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.
We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.
The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.
Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.
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