The Cherubinic Wanderer Quotes

“The Rose is without an explanation; She Blooms because She Blooms.”
― Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer

“The rose is without why; it blooms because it blooms,
It pays no attention to itself, asks not whether it is seen.”
― Angelus Silesius, Cherubinischer Wandersmann

“Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.”
― Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

“God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt;
If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.”
― Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

“Naught is there mightier than God;
Yet hath He not the might to turn
My Will from willing what it will,
My yearning as it needs must yearn?”
― Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

“In God is nothing known: He is undivided, One,
That which one knows in Him, one must oneself become.”
― Angelus Silesius, Angelus Silesius, Cherubinischer Wandersmann (Geistreiche Sinn-und Schlussreime): Abdruck der Ersten Ausgabe von 1657, mit Hinzufügung des Sechsten ... Ausgabe von 1675 (Classic...

“Daß du nicht Menschen liebst, das tust du recht und wohl,
Die Menschheit ists, die man im Menschen lieben soll.”
― Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer

“Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning”
― Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

“The Wise Man's Never Alone

The wise man’s never alone; if no one walks with him,
He has for company the master of all things. (242)”
― Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer

“Sohn ist das liebste Wort, das Gott zu mir mag sprechen;
Spricht ers, so mag mir Welt und Gott auch selbst gebrechen.”
― Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer