J Bohme Famous Quotes & Sayings
30 J Bohme Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and knowing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well-doing.— Jakob Bohme
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.— Jakob Bohme
It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There is no sorrowing. For sorrow is a thing that is swallowed up in death, and death and dying are the very life of the darkness.— Jakob Bohme
Therefore it is highly necessary that God's children earnestly pray and learn to know this false structure, and depart from it in spirit, and not help to build it up...— Jakob Bohme
A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the powers out of which his angels are made, and is the most powerful and the brightest of them all.— Jakob Bohme
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
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
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 life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.— Jakob Bohme
All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.— Jakob Bohme
For according to the outward man, we are in this world, and according to the inward man, we are in the inward world.... Since then we are generated out of both worlds, we speak in two languages, and we must be understood also by two languages.— Jakob Bohme
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, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.— Jakob Bohme
For it is the young tree grown out of the old root which shall illuminate what the old tree has been in its wonders.— Jakob Bohme
He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that.— Jakob Bohme
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, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.— Jakob Bohme
We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.— Jakob Bohme
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.— Jakob Bohme
In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.— Jakob Bohme
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
If Love dwelt not in Trouble, it could have nothing to love. But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved.— Jakob Bohme
It is the greatest folly that is in Babel for people to strive about religion, so that they contend vehemently about opinions of their own forging, viz.— Jakob Bohme
As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same expressed Word is in the angels, angelical; in the devils, diabolical; in man, human; in beasts, bestial.— 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
I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven and earth.— Jakob Bohme
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 nor find that we are at home in this life.— Jakob Bohme
The heart in man signifieth the heat or the element of fire, and it is also the heat; for the heat in the whole body hath its original in the heart.— Jakob Bohme
Whatever the self describes, describes the self.— Jakob Bohme
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
The soul shall mightily rule in all hidden secrets: but it must not let in the devil.— Jakob Bohme
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
Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.— Jakob Bohme
