Quotes by Christian Morgenstern

Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) — Dichter · keine · Deutschland

Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) war ein deutscher Dichter, Schriftsteller und Übersetzer, der unter anderem in Berlin und München wirkte. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch seine humoristischen „Galgenlieder“ und hintergründigen Sprachspiele, verfasste daneben aber auch mystisch-kontemplative Gedankenlyrik. Für Bibelleser bieten seine Aphorismen und Gedichte pointierte Beobachtungen menschlicher Schwächen und spiritueller Sinnsuche, wenngleich sein Spätwerk stark von der Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners beeinflusst war.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Wisdom & Understanding, Faith & Trust, Meaning & Identity, Love, Humility & Pride, Prayer & Silence, The Bible & the Word of God

Quotes by Christian Morgenstern

Whoever gives up on God puts out the sun in order to keep walking by a lantern.

Christian Morgenstern

It is probably more necessary than ever in our agitated age to lift one's gaze from the daily affairs and turn it away from the newspaper towards that other paper, whose letters are the stars, whose content is love, and whose author is God.

Christian Morgenstern

The body is the translator of the soul into the visible.

Christian Morgenstern

The key to the world is humility. Without it, all knocking, listening and searching is in vain.

Christian Morgenstern

In truth, there is no final understanding without love.

Christian Morgenstern

Just as the tiny seed falls into the earth to repeat the primal plant – and not merely repeat it – so is the human being a seed of God. But the sun that ripens it is Christ.

Christian Morgenstern

Simply walk God's path, let nothing else be your guide, then you walk right and straight, even if you walk alone.

Christian Morgenstern

There is only one progress, that of love; but it leads into the blessedness of God himself.

Christian Morgenstern

Everything is beautiful, really, when looked at with love.

Christian Morgenstern

We are not at the end, but at the beginning of Christianity.

Christian Morgenstern

God would be something pitiful if he could be grasped within a human head.

Christian Morgenstern

You recognize a person's character by the jokes they take offense at.

Christian Morgenstern

Whoever brings prayer back into our lives in some form will have given us back something immense.

Christian Morgenstern

It is one of the deepest words: with God nothing is impossible. God is the possibility of all possibilities.

Christian Morgenstern

My only prayer is for deepening. Through it alone can I come back to God.

Christian Morgenstern

Whoever does not know the goal cannot have the way, and will trudge his whole life in the same circle.

Christian Morgenstern

All secrets lie before us in perfect openness.

Christian Morgenstern

For the human being, nothing is impossible, in evil as in good.

Christian Morgenstern

Sources: anthrowiki.at, erziehungskunst.de, wikipedia.org, dhm.de

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