Angelus Silesius
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This may sound a hard thing to say; but even Angelus Silesius, with all his Christian feelings of gentleness and love, was obliged to admit the truth of it.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
Therefore the poet may just as well sing of voluptuousness as of mysticism, be Anacreon or Angelus Silesius, write tragedies or comedies, represent the sublime or the common mind—according to humour or vocation.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
Compare the famous lines of Angelus Silesius: "Had Christ a thousand times Been born in Bethlehem But not in thee, thy sin Would still thy soul condemn."
From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew
At this time he took the name of Angelus Silesius, probably after a Spanish mystic named John ab Angelis.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
The great mystic Angelus Silesius feels this when he says— “I know God cannot live an instant without me, He must give up the ghost if I should cease to be.”
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
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