Quotes by Beat Rink

Beat Rink (b. 1957) — Pfarrer, Gründer der Künstlerinitiative Crescendo, Künstlerseelsorger und Autor · evangelisch-reformiert · Schweiz

Beat Rink (* 1957) ist ein Schweizer evangelisch-reformierter Pfarrer, Künstlerseelsorger und Autor aus Basel. Er gründete 1985 das internationale Kulturschaffenden- und Musikernetzwerk „Crescendo“ und setzt sich seither für die Verbindung von christlichem Glauben, Theologie und zeitgenössischer Kunst ein. Bibellesenden begegnet er vor allem durch sprachlich geschliffene Aphorismen und geistliche Kurzbetrachtungen, die theologische Themen in poetischer Form reflektieren.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust, Doubt & Hard Questions, Grace & Redemption, Joy & Gratitude, Freedom & Truth

Quotes by Beat Rink

We want an abstract God, because we have concrete idols.

Beat Rink

God surrounds his children on all sides. Even from the worst.

Beat Rink

Unfathomable grace: it is hard to accept a gift without having earned it yourself.

Beat Rink

Be wise: ask foolish questions.

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Feelings of inferiority tell us they are not worth paying attention to.

Beat Rink

If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk. If you want to be happy for three days, get married. If you want to be happy for eight days, slaughter a pig and hold a feast. But if you want to be happy for a lifetime, make yourself a garden.

Beat Rink

Children and drunks always have their guardian angels with them.

Beat Rink

What the sober man keeps in his head, the drunkard wears on his tongue.

Beat Rink

If you want to give up drinking, look at a drunkard with sober eyes.

Beat Rink

Some funerals differ from some weddings only in that there is one drunk less.

Beat Rink

After heavy drinking, the mind is very simple.

Beat Rink

One can only bear this state parliament with a lot of humor or in a drunken stupor.

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A wild girl is just as preposterous as a drunken nightingale; an affected one, the parody of an abused ideal.

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I long for delirium. There is a deep longing that absolutely corresponds to my nature and to which I have not yet yielded. I would like to be dead drunk for three months. And then simply explode.

Beat Rink

Then the madman met the drunkard and began to feel afraid.

Beat Rink

Sources: beatrink.ch, crescendo.org, euroleadership.org, ea-bs.ch

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