Quote

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.

Angelus Silesius

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Angelus Silesius
Age: 52 †
Born: 1624
Born: December 1
Died: 1677
Died: June 9
Cleric
Physician Writer
Poet
Presbyter
Priest
Theologian
Writer
Breslau
Johann Scheffler
Johann Angelus Silesius
Core
Fruit
Roots
Morality
Probes
Religion
Grade
Doe
Grades
Care
Root
Good
Tests

More quotes by Angelus Silesius

Image
The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.
Angelus Silesius
Image
Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
Angelus Silesius
Image
It isn't bread that feeds you it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
Angelus Silesius
Image
Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
Angelus Silesius
Image
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
Image
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
Angelus Silesius
Image
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.
Angelus Silesius
Image
What is outside yourself does not convey much worth Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
Angelus Silesius
Image
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
Angelus Silesius
Image
A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.
Angelus Silesius
Image
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
Angelus Silesius
Image
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
Angelus Silesius
Image
The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.
Angelus Silesius
Image
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternally.
Angelus Silesius
Image
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
Angelus Silesius
Image
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Angelus Silesius
Image
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.
Angelus Silesius
Image
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius
Image
If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
Angelus Silesius
Image
Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.
Angelus Silesius