Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius, born Johann Scheffler and also known as Johann Angelus Silesius, was a German Catholic priest and physician, known as a mystic and religious poet. Born and raised a Lutheran, he adopted the name Angelusand the epithet Silesiuson converting to Catholicism in 1653. While studying in the Netherlands, he began to read the works of medieval mystics and became acquainted with the works of the German mystic Jacob Böhme through Böhme's friend, Abraham von Franckenberg. Silesius's mystical beliefs caused...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 December 1624
CountryGermany
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.
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
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.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
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.