Quotes by Alfred Delp

Alfred Delp (1907–1945) — Jesuit/Widerstandskämpfer · Katholisch · Deutschland

Alfred Delp (1907–1945) war ein deutscher Jesuit, katholischer Priester und Publizist, der in München wirkte. Er gehörte zum Kreisauer Kreis im Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus und verband theologische Zeitkritik mit Entwürfen für eine christlich-soziale Gesellschaftsordnung nach dem Regime. Für Bibelleser bezeugen seine in der Haft entstandenen Schriften eine existenzielle Reflexion über Gebet, Hoffnung und Nachfolge im Angesicht des Todes.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Hope & Confidence, Courage & Strength, Meaning & Identity, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Time & Transience, Humility & Pride, Service & Love of Neighbour

Quotes by Alfred Delp

Do not be sad. God helps me so wonderfully and palpably up to now.

Alfred Delp

The world is more than its burden, and life is more than the sum of its gray days.

Alfred Delp

If, through a person, a little more love and kindness, a little more light and truth came into the world, then that person's life has had meaning.

Alfred Delp

Let us trust life, because we do not live it alone, but God lives it with us.

Alfred Delp

God's promises stand above us, more valid than the stars and more effective than the sun.

Alfred Delp

We are not thrown into life by chance, but called into life by God.

Alfred Delp

One can indeed become godless, but one cannot get rid of God.

Alfred Delp

In a few moments I will know more than you.

Alfred Delp

We never walk alone. God walks every way with us.

Alfred Delp

The bent knee and the empty, outstretched hands are the two primal gestures of the free human being.

Alfred Delp

Advent is a time of shaking, in which a person is meant to wake up to themselves.

Alfred Delp

The golden threads of true reality are already breaking through everywhere. Let us know this and let us ourselves be a comforting messenger.

Alfred Delp

The shattering, the awakening: only then does life truly begin to become capable of Advent.

Alfred Delp

If the churches once again present humanity with the image of a quarreling Christianity, they are finished.

Alfred Delp

What good is our terror at aberration and confusion if no light shines forth that is equal to the darkness and remains superior to it?

Alfred Delp

So much courage is in need of strengthening, so much despair of consolation.

Alfred Delp

No one will understand the innermost meaning of the Advent season who has not first been terrified to death of himself and his human possibilities.

Alfred Delp

But all around on the horizon stand silently the eternal things with their ancient longing.

Alfred Delp

Sources: wikipedia.org, dhm.de, nsdoku.de, conversationsmagazine.org

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