Angelus Silesius Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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