Friedrich Schleiermacher Quotes on Nature
Friedrich Schleiermacher was a German theologian and philosopher, often regarded as the father of modern Protestant theology and modern hermeneutics. This page collects quotes attributed to Friedrich Schleiermacher on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Friedrich Schleiermacher:
“The contemplation of the pious is the immediate consciousness of the universal existence of all finite things, in and through the Infinite.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Schleiermacher:
“Every man has been made by God for religion.”
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“Him pervaded the Cosmic Spirit, the Infinity was his beginning and his end, the Universe his only and everlasting love. In holy innocence and deep humility he beheld himself mirrored in the eternal world, and perceived how himself was its most amiable mirror. Full of religion was he and full of Holy Spirit. Wherefore he stands there, alone and unequalled a master of his art, but sublime above the profane rabble, a peerless beacon forever.”
Friedrich Schleiermacher, on Spinoza, as quoted by Cornelius Lanczos in Albert Einstein and the Cosmic World Order (1962), -
“Friedrich Schleiermacher, on Spinoza, as quoted by Cornelius Lanczos in Albert Einstein and the Cosmic World Order (1962),”
Him pervaded the Cosmic Spirit, the Infinity was his beginning and his end, the Universe his only and everlasting love. In holy innocence and deep humility he beheld himself mirrored in the eternal world, and perceived how himself was its most amiable mirror. Full of religion was he and full of Holy Spirit. Wherefore he stands there, alone and unequalled a master of his art, but sublime above the -
“Friedrich Schleiermacher, Christ's Resurrection an Image of Our New Life The World's Great Sermons , Volume 3 by Grenville Kleiser”
Oh, that we had our eyes more and more steadily fixt on the risen Savior! Oh, that we could ever be learning more and more from Him to breathe out blessing, as He did when He imparted His Spirit to the disciples! Oh, that we were more and more learning like Him to encourage the foolish and slow of heart to joyful faith in the divine promises, to active obedience to the divine will of their Lord an -
“Miracle is simply the religious name for event. Every event, even the most natural and usual, becomes a miracle, as soon as the religious view of it can be the dominant. To me all is miracle.”
Second Speech: The Nature of Religion". On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers . London: Paul, Trench, Trubner. 1893. p. 23. -
“Second Speech: The Nature of Religion". On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers . London: Paul, Trench, Trubner. 1893. p. 23.”
Miracle is simply the religious name for event. Every event, even the most natural and usual, becomes a miracle, as soon as the religious view of it can be the dominant. To me all is miracle.