No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.
Love
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Quotes by Jean Paul Richter
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The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.
Life
The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
Faith
The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.
Wisdom
When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity—imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment—then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.
Success
The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
Wisdom
The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.
Love
The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.
Wisdom
The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.
Wisdom
Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?
Wisdom
Suffering is my gain; I bow To my Heavenly Father's will, And receive it hushed and still; Suffering is my worship now.
Wisdom
How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!
Life
Lift thyself up, look around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.
Wisdom
When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real.
Wisdom
Spring makes everything young again, save man.
Wisdom