The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business . — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants. — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet,… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility. — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
When we consider the beginning of our life, and compare the same with the eternal life, which we have in the promise, we cannot… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that. — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
