“I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ag…”

“I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Title: Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Context

(1773), translated by Albert Schweizer in Goethe: Five Studies (1961), Beacon Press, p. 53

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe

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