What good are heavy worries to us, what good is our woe and sighing? What good does it do that every morning we lament our misfortune? We only make our cross and suffering greater through sorrow.

— Georg Neumark (1621–1681), Kirchenlieddichter

Georg Neumark

Georg Neumark war ein deutscher lutherischer Dichter, Bibliothekar und Archivar des 17. Jahrhunderts, der am Hof in Weimar wirkte. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch geistliche Lieder wie „Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten“, die das Vertrauen auf Gottes Vorsehung inmitten existenzieller Not thematisieren. Bibellesern begegnet sein Werk heute als klassisches Zeugnis barocker Trostliteratur, das Geduld und Zuversicht in persönlichen Krisen ausdrückt.

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