Jakob Bohme famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Spiritual #Eye #World
We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.
-- Jakob Bohme

#Joy #Strings #Concerts
You are at enmity with yourself.
-- Jakob Bohme

#Enmity #Conflict
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 #Able #Truth Is
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

#Thinking #Self #Hearing
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 #Saws
For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.
-- Jakob Bohme
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

#Self #Shepherds #Dominion
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

#Art #Silence #Saws
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

#Light #Saws #Herbs
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

#Blessed #Heart #Sadness

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