Best Jakob Bohme Quotes
- The liver signifieth the element of water, and it is also the water; for from the liver cometh the blood in the whole body into… All
- The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught,… All
- Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented. Abraham
- Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar… Adam
- A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according… According
- 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 the… Divine
- God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace,… Free
- He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that. All
- When we consider the beginning of our life, and compare the same with the eternal life, which we have in the promise, we cannot say… Beginning
- For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself. All
- The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist… Availeth
- If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and… Children
- We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger;… Anger
- In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over… All
- Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal… Able
- The soul shall mightily rule in all hidden secrets: but it must not let in the devil. All