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
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
