Angelus Silesius > Quotes

“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. O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.”
― Angelus Silesius

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

“The Rose is without an explanation; She Blooms because She Blooms.”
― Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

“The rose is without why; it blooms because it blooms,
It pays no attention to itself, asks not whether it is seen.”
― Angelus Silesius, Cherubinischer Wandersmann

“Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.”
― Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

“God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt;
If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.”
― Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

“Ich bin, ich weiß nicht wer.
Ich komme, ich weiß nicht woher.
Ich gehe, ich weiß nicht wohin.
Mich wundert, daß ich so fröhlich bin.”
― 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, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

“God, whose boundless love and joy
Are present everywhere;
He cannot come to visit you
Unless you are not there.”
― Angelus Silesius

“In God is nothing known: He is undivided, One,
That which one knows in Him, one must oneself become.”
― Angelus Silesius, Angelus Silesius, Cherubinischer Wandersmann (Geistreiche Sinn-und Schlussreime): Abdruck der Ersten Ausgabe von 1657, mit Hinzufügung des Sechsten ... Ausgabe von 1675 (Classic...

“Ich selbst muß Sonne sein, ich muß mit meinen Strahlen
Das farbenlose Meer der ganzen Gottheit malen.”
― Angelus Silesius

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

“El Sol todo lo anima; hace brillar a las estrellas. Si no te mueve también a tí, no eres parte del Todo.”
― Angelus Silesius

“Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning”
― Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

“Daß du nicht Menschen liebst, das tust du recht und wohl,
Die Menschheit ists, die man im Menschen lieben soll.”
― Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer

“Und wäre Christus tausendmal in Bethlehem geboren,
und nicht in dir: Du bliebest doch in alle Ewigkeit verloren.”
― Angelus Silesius

“Mensch, wenn du noch nach Gott Begier hast und Verlangen,
So bist du noch von ihm nicht ganz und gar umfangen.”
― Angelus Silesius

“Eu não sei o que sou
Eu não sou o que sei
Uma coisa e não uma coisa:
Um ponto ínfimo e um círculo”
― Angelus Silesius

“The Wise Man's Never Alone

The wise man’s never alone; if no one walks with him,
He has for company the master of all things. (242)”
― Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer

“Sohn ist das liebste Wort, das Gott zu mir mag sprechen;
Spricht ers, so mag mir Welt und Gott auch selbst gebrechen.”
― Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer