mentor Susanna von Klettenberg, although that well-to-do aristocrat was not as dependent on God’s help. Jung-Stilling’s trust in God helped him in ways that were sometimes so miraculous Goethe was still impressed when writing about him decades later: The elemental part of his energy was an indestructible belief in God and the unmediated help that flowed from Him, which was evidently confirmed by uninterrupted provision against and unfailing rescue from all want and every evil. For Goethe, Jung-Stilling demonstrated that trust in God could mobilize one’s own powers. In that sense, trust in God
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