Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Pleasure
• God Is
• Predestination

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• What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Pleasure
  • God Is
  • Predestination