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

- Angelus Silesius

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.

- Angelus Silesius

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

- Angelus Silesius

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

- Angelus Silesius

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

- Angelus Silesius

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

- 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

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

- Angelus Silesius

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

- Angelus Silesius