Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Heaven

• We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eden, Heaven, Devil

• Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Perfect, Heaven

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.126, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Heaven, Arms

  "Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808.

• Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Blow, Blue, Wind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel”, p.229

• And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heaven, Path, Steps

• Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Fall, Dark

• The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth
  And then returning to earth, forever alternating.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Water, Forever

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Poems of Goethe”, Richard West

• Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Light, Oil, Shining

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.30, Lulu.com

• Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Heaven, Religion

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