Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Christ

• If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Jesus, Earth

• 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

• Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Surprise, Christ, Lord

  "Venetian Epigrams". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jerome Rothenberg, 1790.

• I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation
  on which alone my happiness rests.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Jesus, Men, Names

  "Goethe: Five Studies". Book by Albert Schweizer, p. 53, 1961.

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