Angelus Silesius - Time Quotes

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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

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

Angelus Silesius

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

Angelus Silesius

Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different

Angelus Silesius

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

Angelus Silesius

Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.

Angelus Silesius

Two eyes our souls possess:
While one is turned on time,
The other seeth things
Eternal and sublime

Angelus Silesius

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

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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.

Angelus Silesius

Do not compute eternity as light-year after year One step across that line called Time Eternity is here.

Angelus Silesius