Angelus Silesius Quotes
Top 36 wise famous quotes and sayings by Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius Famous Quotes & Sayings
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What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt;
If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.
If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.
Die ere thou diest - dying, then thou diest not:
Die not - perchance then, dying, thou shalt die and rot.
Die not - perchance then, dying, thou shalt die and rot.
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born
in thee thy soul is still forlorn.
in thee thy soul is still forlorn.
The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.
I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.
Naught is there mightier than God;
Yet hath He not the might to turn
My Will from willing what it will,
My yearning as it needs must yearn?
Yet hath He not the might to turn
My Will from willing what it will,
My yearning as it needs must yearn?
Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning
The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.
Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.