The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
Meister EckhartYour own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
Meister EckhartGod expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Meister EckhartGod is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
Meister EckhartThough one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .
Meister Eckhart