All Quotes by Angelus Silesius
“By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.”
“How fleeting is this world and our ephemeral lives.”
“Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend? It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee”
“The Thought and Deed of Deity An Undiscovered Continent.”
“A Loaf holds many grains of corn And that great Multitude are we.”
“The All proceedeth from the One, Asunder-riven manyness.”
“God is an utter Nothingness, The more he fleeth thy embrace.”
“Naught ever can be known in God: One and Alone Is He. To know Him, Knower must be one with Known.”
“Though Christ a thousand times Thy soul will be forlorn”
“The Cross on Golgotha It be set up again”
“If thou dost love a Something, Man, Leave Somethings utterly aside”
“Christ was born a man for me, His death denied”
“True prayer requires no word, no chant with our own godly Ground”
“God far exceeds all words that we can here express In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best”
“No thought for the hereafter have the wise, for on this very earth they live in paradise”
“All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning. You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning”
“Unless you find paradise at your own center, That you may enter”
“Saints do not die. It is their lot, To die while on this earth to all that God is not.”
“The vengeful God of wrath and punishment That makes me fail.”
“No ray of Light can shine I lose my course.”
“So high above all things that be. When Silence is his sum of prayer”
“Even before I was me, I was God in God; And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself”
“Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different”
“I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute”
“In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send, The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.”
“No man has known perfect felicity, Until his otherness is drowned in unity”
“Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence”
“The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all, That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill”
“If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be”
“Two eyes our souls possess: Eternal and sublime”
“Who would expect it so? And Something comes from Naught.”
“I say it speeds thee not To death and sin a slave.”
“The resurrection is Thy sins hast set thee free.”
“If neither love nor pain And then in God thou art”
“The nearest way to God Too slow for evermore”
“Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime”
“Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;— The things o'er which thou mournest—are they not playthings all?”
“Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.”
“Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.”
“God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills”
“In schools throughout the world God's but described to you. Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.”
“A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea, Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?”
“God is a flowing well which constantly may pour Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.”