Angelus Silesius - Art Quotes

6 Sourced Quotes

View all Angelus Silesius Quotes

Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem
A thousand times his Mother bore,
Is he not born again in thee
Then art thou lost for evermore.

Angelus Silesius

The World doth not imprison thee.
Thou art thyself the World, and there, Within thyself,
thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner.

Angelus Silesius

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

Angelus Silesius

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

Angelus Silesius

All Heaven is within thee, Man,
And all of Hell within thy heart:
What thou dost choose and will to have,
That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.

Angelus Silesius

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

Angelus Silesius