Alas! how we forget that we are but strangers and pilgrims on the earth; that we are journeying to our eternal home, and will soon be there!

— Octavius Winslow (1808–1878), Prediger

Topics: Time & Transience, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death

Octavius Winslow

Octavius Winslow war ein englisch-US-amerikanischer Prediger und Autor des 19. Jahrhunderts, der als Geistlicher bei den Baptisten sowie später in der Church of England unter anderem in Bath und Brighton wirkte. Er steht für eine an den Puritanern orientierte, seelsorgerliche Frömmigkeit mit starkem Schwerpunkt auf dem Wirken des Heiligen Geistes und der Hinwendung zu Christus. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er durch Andachtsbücher und Schriften, die theologische Lehren mit persönlicher Glaubenserfahrung und Zuspruch verknüpfen.

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