Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Bible

• Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Shining, Mind

• I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Jesus, Shining

• It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Meditation, Fruit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1824). “Memoirs of Goethe:”, p.410

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