Jakob Bohme Quotes

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 .

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.

Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.

We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.

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.

Whatever the self describes, describes the self.

You are at enmity with yourself.

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 any man about religion.

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 any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him.

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 the eternal nature is its root.