Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels' parents were Catholics. Goebbels graduated from a Roman Catholic high school. He was a prominent Nazi and propagandist.

Quotes

 * "We have a feeling that Germany has been transformed into a great house of God, including all classes, professions and creeds, where the Führer as our mediator stood before the throne of the Almighty.", Joseph Goebbels, in a broadcast, April 19, 1936.


 * "Christianity... is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "My God is a God of strength. He does not like the smell of frankincense and the dishonoring crawl of the crowd. I stand before Him proudly, with the head held high, as He created me, and I profess gladly and freely before Him. The true German seeks God for all of his life.", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "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.", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "I feel how inside of me word follows word and thought follows thought, growing to the last act of creation. Holy hour of bringing forth, you are pain and pleasure, and a longing for form, image and essence. I am only the instrument that God uses to sing his song.", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "Christ is the genius of love and as such the most diametric antipole to Jewry, which is the incarnation of hate. … Christ was the first anti-Jewish opponent of stature. … The Jew is the lie that became flesh. He nailed Christ to the cross, and thus for the first time in history nailed the eternal truth to the cross.", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "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.", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "Old Christmas Songs. I feel something like a longing for a lost homeland. We are giving gifts to each other. A beautiful, old New Testament from Hertha Holk is my greatest joy. I thank her for being my solace and my strength.", Joseph Goebbels.


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


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


 * "He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "I take the Bible, and all evening long I read the simplest and greatest sermon that has ever been given to mankind: The Sermon on the Mount! 'Blessed are they who suffer persecution for the sake of justice, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven'!", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "Christ cannot have been a Jew. I do not need to prove this with science or scholarship. It is so!", Joseph Goebbels.


 * "A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically-- it is a fact.", Joseph Goebbels.