In a message dated 9/19/00 2:43:06 AM GMT Daylight Time,
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> I have a quote from Meister Eckhart in my typed notes corresponding to 2
> Cor. 12, 9 -- "my power is made perfect in weakness" -- the quote from
> Eckhart is
>
> "diu tugent wirt volbraht in der krankheit"
>
> It's in one of the sermons
It's certainly in 'The Talks of Instruction' ix, 'How the inclination to sin
is always beneficial'; and he also employs it in 'TheBook of Divine Comfort',
but I can't find it in the 'Sermons'.
Thanks, anyway, for sending me back to Eckhart! "Youth remains in the Soul".
Henry Gough-Cooper
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