Angelus Silesius - God Quotes

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The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

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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.

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

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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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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly
As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.

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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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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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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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If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea
Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be

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A Loaf holds many grains of corn
And many myriad drops the Sea:
So is God's Oneness Multitude
And that great Multitude are we.

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If thou dost love a Something, Man,
Thou lovest naught that doth abide.
God is not This nor That—do thou
Leave Somethings utterly aside

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So high above all things that be.
Is God uplifted, man can dare.
No utterance: he prayeth best.
When Silence is his sum of prayer

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God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals
Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills

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The vengeful God of wrath and punishment
is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me
That makes me fail.

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In schools throughout the world God's but described to you.
Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.

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God far exceeds all words that we can here express
In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best

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Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know,
Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now
And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day
Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.

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I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute

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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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The nearest way to God
Leads through love's open door;
The path of knowledge is
Too slow for evermore

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

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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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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time,
There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime

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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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