Best 25 quotes of Angelus Silesius on MyQuotes

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

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

Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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