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 Böhme)

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 Böhme

Related topics

divine dominion potent shepherd spirit works

Related quotes

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
The legislator of the Jews in a bolder spirit went to a further extreme and in the practice of his "naked” philosophy, as they call it, ventured to speak of him who was possessed by love of the divine. View quote
Philo
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit. View quote
Peter Garrett
The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works. View quote
Meister Eckhart