Angelus Silesius Quotes & Sayings

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally. — Angelus Silesius

Do not seek God in outer space
Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face. — Angelus Silesius

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? — Angelus Silesius

It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread. — Angelus Silesius

The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity. — Angelus Silesius

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity. — Angelus Silesius

The Rose is without 'why' - she blooms because she blooms. — Angelus Silesius

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse. — Angelus Silesius

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth. — Angelus Silesius

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature. — Angelus Silesius

God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt;
If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault. — Angelus Silesius

Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now? — Angelus Silesius

A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms; it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen. — Angelus Silesius

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. — Angelus Silesius

The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers. — Angelus Silesius

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact. — Angelus Silesius

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair. — Angelus Silesius

Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead. — Angelus Silesius

The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul. — Angelus Silesius

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated. — Angelus Silesius

The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision. — Angelus Silesius

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there. — Angelus Silesius

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter. — Angelus Silesius

Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know , Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God 's own way. — Angelus Silesius

Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night. — Angelus Silesius

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. — Angelus Silesius

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. — Angelus Silesius

Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning — Angelus Silesius

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine. — Angelus Silesius

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear. — Angelus Silesius

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms. — Angelus Silesius

Die ere thou diest - dying, then thou diest not:
Die not - perchance then, dying, thou shalt die and rot. — Angelus Silesius

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born
in thee thy soul is still forlorn. — Angelus Silesius

Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me. — Angelus Silesius

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love. — Angelus Silesius

I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world
O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself. — Angelus Silesius

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. — Angelus Silesius