Joseph Goebbels - Michael (1929)

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If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

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Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

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O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.

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I stood in front of your grave; in radiating sunshine there was a still, green mound. And it was preaching about mortality. My answer was: resurrection.

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Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.

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The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.

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You challenged your fate. To surmount or to die! It was not yet time. Therefore you became a victim. Your answer was: Death!

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The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

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Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

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Both of us were about to capitulate facing spiritual breakdown. Then we helped each other to stand tall and did not falter. My answer was: Resistance!

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The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.

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I should like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

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The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx.
Christ: the principle of love.
Marx: the principle of hate.

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That's what the democratic parties personify: business groups! Nothing more. 'Weltanschauung? What kind of reactionary expression is that? Honor, loyalty, creed, convictions? Man, you are living in yesterday!'

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The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
I grew stronger inside of me and I strive for a clearer knowledge and stronger faith.

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I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

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To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

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Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

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When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.

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Give your goods to the poor: Christ.
Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx.

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Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

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At night I sit in my chamber and read the Bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

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The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

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The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.

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The Jew is contrary to our being. … He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

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A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

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We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

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I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.

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I dedicate this book to the memory of my friend Richard Flisges, who died as a brave soldier of work in a mine at Schliersee on the 19th of July 1923.

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