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Wilhelm Busch Quotes

d. 1966 Germany

Wilhelm Busch (* March 27, 1897 – † June 22, 1966) was a German Lutheran pastor, youth evangelist, writer and activist of the Confessing Church during the Nazi period in Germany. His book "Jesus our destiny" (in German Jesus unser Schicksal) is regarded for being probably the most famous evangelistic book in German language.

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Also known as: Wilhelm Busch (priest)

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All religions are human attempts to find God. But they all have this in common: they have all gone astray in the fog and have not been able to discover God.

I know of people who secretly think about themselves: God must be really happy that I still believe in Him at all." Good heavens! That's not enough!

Religious people crucified the Son of God. He was not fitting to their wishes.

There is sort of Christians Christianity of whose had died out long ago, they have just not noticed that. Thus, they let all things stay as they are.

I owe my view of the world to the Bible. To my mind, the Bible's approach is the only valid one. Most philosophies usually go out of date within 20 years.

Half-Christian is a full swindler.

Today, when the Gospel is under attack from all directions, I too must ask the question: What profit do you get from your unbelief? I never get the impression that people have peace of mind or are happier for all their unbelief. No, my friends.

At that period, everybody in the Roman Empire had some kind of religion, but nobody bothered much about it. Just like today. ...Although Romans had plenty of gods, in reality they believed in none.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilhelm Busch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.