Quotes by Jeremias Gotthelf

Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854) — Pfarrer und Schriftsteller · Reformiert · Schweiz

Jeremias Gotthelf (bürgerlich Albert Bitzius, 1797–1854) war ein Schweizer reformierter Pfarrer und Schriftsteller, der ab 1832 in Lützelflüh im Emmental wirkte. Er erlangte mit realistischen Erzählungen wie „Die schwarze Spinne“ und seinem sozialethischen Einsatz gegen gesellschaftliche Missstände Bekanntheit, vertrat jedoch ein streng hierarchisches Gesellschaftsbild und trug scharfe politische Konflikte aus. Heutigen Bibellesern führt sein Werk die Bewährung von Glauben, persönlicher Integrität und praktischer Nächstenliebe im alltäglichen Leben vor Augen.

Era: Revival & the 19th Century

Recurring topics: Joy & Gratitude, Wisdom & Understanding, Love, Faith & Trust, Growth & Character, Meaning & Identity, Relationships & Family, Work & Vocation

Quotes by Jeremias Gotthelf

Gratitude is a very peculiar plant; as soon as one tries to force its growth, it withers.
Jeremias Gotthelf

It is hard to find the right middle: to harden the heart for life, and keep it soft for love.
Jeremias Gotthelf

Blessed are those who preserve in their children the sense that small things can bring them joy.
Jeremias Gotthelf

Whoever cannot give thanks cannot love either.
Jeremias Gotthelf

Man should sow, but the harvest is in God's hand. For what I do, I am responsible. What I bring about, God governs.
Jeremias Gotthelf

That is precisely the misfortune, that people want to become happy through good fortune and not through a life blessed by God.
Jeremias Gotthelf

The blessing of God. What is that? It is the blessing of God—one cannot say more, just as light is light and spirit is spirit and God is God. But where it dwells, it makes much out of little and blesses body and soul.
Jeremias Gotthelf

To have no one in the world to flee to, no one to rely on in need — that is a grief on which many a heart bleeds to death.
Jeremias Gotthelf

The heaviest burden loses half its weight when one can speak of it.
Jeremias Gotthelf

I do not believe that two people come together in this world who do not need to change, more or less, if they want to remain happy.
Jeremias Gotthelf

A life is not a candle; a candle I can light again. Life is a flame of God; once he lets it burn on earth, and then not again.
Jeremias Gotthelf

Thanks is no humiliation, but a sign of clear understanding.
Jeremias Gotthelf

When anger is in a person, he rarely does the wisest thing, but usually the most foolish.
Jeremias Gotthelf

Without children, the world would be a desert.
Jeremias Gotthelf

It is with love as with plants: whoever wants to harvest love must sow love.
Jeremias Gotthelf

In this I differ from many, that for me the religious element sees no other, better form than: life in God, and to portray this life ever more clearly through myself and others ... through life itself.
Jeremias Gotthelf

From unlimited freedom, people do not perish by the dozen, but by the thousand.
Jeremias Gotthelf

Lord our God, you have countless quiet ways of making possible what seems impossible. Yesterday nothing was visible, today not much, but tomorrow it stands there finished, and only then, looking back, do we notice how quietly you accomplished what we, with all our noise, could not achieve.
Jeremias Gotthelf

God's order cannot be reversed without punishment.
Jeremias Gotthelf

Strangely enough, it is godlessness itself that becomes most intolerant as soon as it has won the right to show itself openly and brazenly.
Jeremias Gotthelf

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Sources: deutsche-biographie.de, condorcet.ch, gotthelf.ch, wikipedia.org

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