"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Topic(s):
God
More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "To rule is easy, to govern difficult."
- "Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout."
- "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
More In God
- "Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values… God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."― Charles Lindbergh
- "Every test, every trial, every heartache that’s been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what."― Charles Stanley
- "Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law."― Marcus Tullius Cicero