“By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.”
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“If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternally. ”
Angelus Silesius“Naught is there mightier than God;Yet hath He not the might to turnMy Will from willing what it will,My yearning as it needs must yearn?”
Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer“Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.”
Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer