Quotes by Benedikt Peters
Benedikt Peters (b. 1950) — Bibellehrer, Hebraist/Gräzist, Dozent und theologischer Autor · konservativ-evangelikal / freikirchlich · Schweden / Schweiz
Benedikt Peters ist ein schwedisch-schweizerischer Bibellehrer, Hebraist und Autor im konservativ-evangelikalen und freikirchlichen Raum. Seine Veröffentlichungen zeichnen sich durch eine historisch-grammatische Schriftauslegung aus und grenzen sich entschieden von historisch-kritischen sowie pfingstlich-charismatischen Strömungen ab. Für heutige Bibelleser bietet er fundierte Auslegungen zu biblischen Büchern, die altsprachliche Texttreue mit leicht verständlicher Erklärung verbinden.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: The Bible & the Word of God, Wisdom & Understanding, Humility & Pride, Guilt & Forgiveness, Suffering & the Question of God, Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Quotes by Benedikt Peters
Few things torment a suffering person as much as cheap biblical advice given out of place.
Benedikt Peters
Nowhere do we see so deeply into the heart of God as at Golgotha.
Benedikt Peters
The glory of the end outshines by far all the darkness of the present.
Benedikt Peters
Truths that are wrongly applied are false, and therefore cause evil, not good.
Benedikt Peters
We can never thank God enough that he often does not give us what we desire, and instead gives us what we did not desire.
Benedikt Peters
We are obliged to love one another, not to demand love from one another.
Benedikt Peters
What artists we are, effortlessly bending God's words to serve our own purposes!
Benedikt Peters
Can we stand at Golgotha and still throw at God's feet the question of why he permits suffering in this world?
Benedikt Peters
One of the surest signs of a fool is that he already thinks he knows everything, even though he has heard only half of it or less.
Benedikt Peters
How distorted all our judging becomes as soon as we lose sight of God and measure what we say and do by ourselves and our own feelings!
Benedikt Peters
Whoever keeps company with God will find well-being; whoever takes his words to heart is truly wise, and whoever values the knowledge of God more than all earthly treasures will find in God the highest treasure.
Benedikt Peters
I hear God's own voice in the written word. And that voice is powerful. It gives life, certainty, and comfort.
Benedikt Peters
A man's character is more important than his possessions; what one is matters more than what one has.
Benedikt Peters
When God in his grace takes away the guilt of the guilty and gives him life, he displays his divine justice.
Benedikt Peters
When God does good to us, it is undeserved; when God condemns us, it is always deserved. His grace is unearned, his judgments are justified.
Benedikt Peters
Whoever has insight worships.
Benedikt Peters
How easily we become, when our eye is not single, a tool of the accuser of the brethren!
Benedikt Peters
We only begin to grow wise where we deny ourselves.
Benedikt Peters
Where there is no time for speaking with God and listening to his word, standards begin to fade. The process of inner transformation begins where people no longer have time to read God's word.
Benedikt Peters
The Bible speaks of the most important things there are, of the problems that have occupied human thought as long as there have been human beings.
Benedikt Peters
Everything that happens on earth depends on heaven.
Benedikt Peters
It becomes meaningless, and unbearable in its meaninglessness, if we do not know the God who created us and are no longer trustingly devoted to him.
Benedikt Peters
No sin against God can be small, because it is committed against the great God of heaven and earth. If the sinner could find a small god, he could also find small sins.
Benedikt Peters
How little we resemble our Master!
Benedikt Peters
A church that does not wait for the return of Christ has abandoned the core of its being.
Benedikt Peters
Too often and too lightly we shirk the effort of wrestling seriously for a thorough understanding of disputed doctrines.
Benedikt Peters
The entire morality of modernity and postmodernity rests on the human will's self-legislation.
Benedikt Peters
If our words no longer provoke, then we would do better to be silent.
Benedikt Peters
Without the message of the book of Job, we cannot rightly understand the life of the redeemed in time.
Benedikt Peters
Let us give honor to the Exalted One and confess that his grace is great, that his electing love is incomprehensible, that he is everything and we are nothing, that all the evil we do is entirely our own work, and all the good that happens to us is exclusively God's work.
Benedikt Peters
Sufferings are not a punishment, but disciplinary measures of God.
Benedikt Peters
We have risen up against God, our own wickedness has brought evil into the world. Therefore God does not owe us that he keep all evil from us and let only good happen to us.
Benedikt Peters
We cannot do with God as we please, but he can do with us as he pleases. He has the right and the power to do so. We have no right, and we have no power either.
Benedikt Peters
We perceive our sins and our sinfulness only faintly. We overlook countless wrongdoings and misjudge the greatness of our own wickedness.
Benedikt Peters
There is no 'Solus Christus' without 'Sola Scriptura', for the only Christ we know is the Christ of Scripture.
Benedikt Peters
The Bible is a closed revelation; the canon is not open.
Benedikt Peters
That doctrine divides while love unites is a quite foolish slogan. Here things are being separated that God has joined together, and we can never do that without consequence. No, we need doctrine, for without doctrine there is no faith and no obedience of faith, and thus no unity!
Benedikt Peters
Faith in the Creator subjects us to him.
Benedikt Peters
Knowledge of God always leads to knowledge of self. But knowledge of self always means knowledge of our wickedness, our impurity, our sinfulness.
Benedikt Peters
Sources: wikipedia.org, bbnradio.org, bibelbund.de, crossload.org
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