41 quotes
He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
One only honours what one conquers or defends.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
I should like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man."
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Give your goods to the poor: Christ.
Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)