1531 Quotes

“For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words.
—Opus paramirum, I:ix”
― Paracelsus, Paracelsus: Essential Readings

“The saints are in heaven, not in wood.
—De morbis ex incantationibus et impressionibus”
― Paracelsus, The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science