"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): God More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Character develops itself in the stream of life." "This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew." "The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality." More In God "If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you."― Peter Marshall "Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."― Aeschylus "As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it’s uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person’s chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it’s only by the grace of God that you get there."― Mehmet Oz