Angelus Silesius quotes

Angelus Silesius was a German Catholic mystic poet and religious writer, celebrated for his spiritual poetry. His most famous work, "The Cherubinic Wanderer," is renowned for its profound mystical insights and concise, paradoxical verses. He inspired generations of readers with his exploration of faith, inner experience, and the nature of God. Here are 56 of his quotes:

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn.

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

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

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The Rose is without 'why'-she blooms because she blooms.

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No thought for the hereafter have the wise, for on this very earth they live in paradise.

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God is a flowing well which constantly may pour Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.

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Travel within thyself! The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought, cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.

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Even before I was me, I was God in God; And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself.

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If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art.

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God is an utter Nothingness, Beyond the touch of Time and Place: The more thou graspest after Him, The more he fleeth thy embrace.

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Saints do not die. It is their lot, To die while on this earth to all that God is not.

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Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend? It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee.

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Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;- The things o'er which thou mournest-are they not playthings all?

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I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.

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The Thought and Deed of Deity Are of such richness and extent That It remaineth to Itself An Undiscovered Continent.

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Christ was born a man for me, for me he died - Unless I become God through Him, His birth is mocked His death denied.

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All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning. You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning.

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Naught ever can be known in God: One and Alone Is He. To know Him, Knower must be one with Known.

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

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Unless you find paradise at your own center, there is not the smallest chance That you may enter.

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In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send, The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.

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The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all, Like men inebriate, swept away and enthralled By both its heat and strength; thus it remains true still That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill.

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