Meister Eckhart's Sermons — trans. Claud Field (1909)
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This is the chief significance of the suffering of Christ for us, that we cast all our grief into the ocean of His suffering. If thou sufferest only regarding thyself, from whatever cause it may be, that suffering causes grief to thee, and is hard to bear. But if thou sufferest regarding God and Him alone, that suffering is not grievous, nor hard to bear, because God bears the load. The love of the Cross must swallow up our personal grief. Whoso does not suffer from love, for him sorrow is sorrow and grievous to bear; but whoso suffers from love he sorrows not, and his suffering is fruitful in God. Therefore is sorrow so noble; he who sorrows most is the noblest. Now no mortal's sorrow was like the sorrow which Christ bore; therefore he is far nobler than any man. Verily were there anything nobler than sorrow, God would have redeemed man thereby. Sorrow is the root of all virtue.
Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
Indexes
Index of Scripture References
Luke
1:28 10:42 21:31
John
6:44 14:23
1 Corinthians
15:10
Sirach
24:30
Luke
1:28 10:42 21:31
John
6:44 14:23
1 Corinthians
15:10
Sirach
24:30
Index of Scripture Commentary
Luke
1:28 10:42 21:31
John
6:44 14:23
1 Corinthians
15:10
Sirach
24:30
Luke
1:28 10:42 21:31
John
6:44 14:23
1 Corinthians
15:10
Sirach
24:30
Index of Pages of the Print Edition
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38-39 40-41 42-43 44-45 46-47 48-49
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Indexes
Index of Scripture References
Luke
1:28 10:42 21:31
John
6:44 14:23
1 Corinthians
15:10
Sirach
24:30
Index of Scripture Commentary
Luke
1:28 10:42 21:31
John
6:44 14:23
1 Corinthians
15:10
Sirach
24:30
Index of Pages of the Print Edition
1 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13
14-15 16-17 18-19 20-21 22-23 24-25
26-27 28-29 30-31 32-33 34-35 36-37
38-39 40-41 42-43 44-45 46-47 48-49
50-51 52-53 54-55 56-57 58-59 60-61
62-63 64-65
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