Jakob Bohme Born : March 8, 1575 Died : November 17, 1624 Browse All Authors Top 40 quotes by Jakob Bohme 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 serious-business perfect play 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 is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God. Jakob Bohme herbs saws light We are all strings in the concert of God's joy. Jakob Bohme strings concerts joy Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God. Jakob Bohme eye spiritual world In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants. Jakob Bohme garden light religion 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 and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God. Jakob Bohme hearing self thinking Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves. Jakob Bohme environmental truth-is able 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 that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began. Jakob Bohme saws silence art 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 dominion. Jakob Bohme shepherds dominion self What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead. Jakob Bohme triumph spiritual writing You are at enmity with yourself. Jakob Bohme enmity conflict For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself. Jakob Bohme Whatever the self describes, describes the self. Jakob Bohme self 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 therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride. Jakob Bohme sadness blessed heart 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 of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours. Jakob Bohme good quality blessed life 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 the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth. Jakob Bohme being god love-is love 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 thee. Jakob Bohme stars life world art The soul shall mightily rule in all hidden secrets: but it must not let in the devil. Jakob Bohme hidden secrets devil soul The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over. Jakob Bohme you hell god world 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 Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God. Jakob Bohme faith god work men
