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God Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,…
- What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
- The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
- Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
- Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously…
- I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man…
- It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
- The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are."…
- It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to…
- Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His…
- Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
- Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
- As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth,…
- If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
- We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
- Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
- I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly…
- Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome…
- Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he…
- God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
- My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I…
- As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
- Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done,…
- God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy…
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi