Angelus Quotes

#1. When the Byzantine emperor Isaac Angelus demanded it for the Orthodox, Saladin decided that they must share it under his supervision and appointed Sheikh Ghanim al-Khazraji as Custodian of the Church, a role still performed today by his descendants, the Nusseibeh family.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#2. Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons ... No friends ... No hope. Take all that away ... and what's left? Buffy: Me.

Joss Whedon

#3. Without passion we'd be truly dead. Angelus - Passion - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Josh Whedon

#4. On the Place she met Lestivoudois on his way back, for, in order not to shorten his day's labour, he preferred interrupting his work, then beginning it again, so that he rang the Angelus to suit his own convenience. Besides, the ringing over a little earlier warned the lads of catechism hour.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. I'll be setting off just after the Angelus bell- at noon, I mean - should that suit your honors.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

Angelus Silesius

#7. Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.

Angelus Silesius

#8. A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms; it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.

Angelus Silesius

#9. What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

Angelus Silesius

#10. The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.

Angelus Silesius

#11. God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

Angelus Silesius

#12. God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Angelus Silesius

#13. Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.

Angelus Silesius

#14. I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.

Angelus Silesius

#15. Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Angelus Silesius

#16. Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.

Angelus Silesius

#17. The Rose is without 'why' - she blooms because she blooms.

Angelus Silesius

#18. Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

Angelus Silesius

#19. God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

Angelus Silesius

#20. We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

Angelus Silesius

#21. The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.

Angelus Silesius

#22. Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know , Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God 's own way.

Angelus Silesius

#23. If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Angelus Silesius

#24. God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt;
If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.

Angelus Silesius

#25. The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

Angelus Silesius

#26. The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.

Angelus Silesius

#27. If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

Angelus Silesius

#28. Do not seek God in outer space
Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

Angelus Silesius

#29. The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

Angelus Silesius

#30. Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning

Angelus Silesius

#31. Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.

Angelus Silesius

#32. Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?

Angelus Silesius

#33. The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

Angelus Silesius

#34. By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Angelus Silesius

#35. Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born
in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

Angelus Silesius

#36. A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

Angelus Silesius

#37. Die ere thou diest - dying, then thou diest not:
Die not - perchance then, dying, thou shalt die and rot.

Angelus Silesius

#38. It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.

Angelus Silesius

#39. Naught is there mightier than God;
Yet hath He not the might to turn
My Will from willing what it will,
My yearning as it needs must yearn?

Angelus Silesius

#40. I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world
O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.

Angelus Silesius

#41. Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me.

Angelus Silesius

#42. The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

Angelus Silesius