Meister Eckhart - About god - 117446

"God 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 Eckhart

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God 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.

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