Religion Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith is hidden household capital.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Medicine, and Law, and Philosophy - You've worked your way through every school, Even, God help you, Theology, And sweated at it…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe