Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Worship

• I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Errors

  Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

• The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Soul, Worship

• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.-
  Henry Ward Beecher -
  I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, How To Love, Worship

• 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 when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Spring, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

• Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Errors, Care

  Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

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