Jakob Bohme Quotes

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• You are at enmity with yourself.
• Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.
• In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.
• In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he…
• When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art…
• When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth…
• Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.
• When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will…
• A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with…
• A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to…
• If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should…
• 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,…
• Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which…
• If Love dwelt not in Trouble, it could have nothing to love. But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble…
• The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its…
• Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in…
• Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
• Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.
• Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables;…
• The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying…

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