Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About God

• What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  God, Powerful, Omnipotence

• As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  God, Men, Odd

• As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery.
  [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott,
  Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  God, Men, Mockery

• Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  God, Nature, Play

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