Quotes from Angelus Silesius

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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