Quotes by Brother Roger

Brother Roger (1915–2005) — Ordensgründer · Ökumenisch · Frankreich

Der Schweizer evangelisch-reformierte Theologe Frère Roger (1915–2005) gründete im französischen Taizé eine ökumenische Bruderschaft, die zu einem internationalen geistlichen Zentrum wurde. Er stand für eine monastische Lebensform des einfachen Lebens, des kontemplativen Gebets und der praktischen Versöhnung über Konfessionsgrenzen hinweg. Bibellesern vermitteln seine Schriften und Gebete ein auf Stille, inneren Frieden und elementares Gottvertrauen ausgerichtetes Verständnis des Evangeliums.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Witness & Mission, Faith & Trust, Service & Love of Neighbour, Peace & Rest, Discipleship, Grace & Redemption, The Bible & the Word of God

Quotes by Brother Roger

Live what you have grasped of the Gospel, however little it may be.
Brother Roger

You, Christ, are the one who every morning places on my finger the ring of the prodigal son, the ring of the feast.
Brother Roger

The little we grasp of the Gospel unfolds within us as soon as we pass it on, however timidly.
Brother Roger

In every human being there is a part of loneliness that no human intimacy can fill. It is there that God meets us.
Brother Roger

Make your living spaces a place where others are always welcome, a house of peace and mutual forgiveness.
Brother Roger

God wants us to be happy: but where does the source of this hope lie? It lies in a communion with God who lives in the depths of every human soul.
Brother Roger

Prayer is the awareness of a deep friendship with God!
Brother Roger

To receive Christ, in the peace of the night, in the stillness of the day, in the beauty of creation, but also in hours of fierce inner struggle, means knowing that he is with us in every situation, that he is always with us.
Brother Roger

If the neighbor disappears from our dialogue with Christ, then our love for God does not have the Christ of the Gospel as its content.
Brother Roger

Mary did not keep her son for herself, but gave him to the world. In the same way, we too are called not to keep for ourselves the people God entrusts to us, but to give away what God gives us.
Brother Roger

To love Christ and to love the Church, that is one and the same.
Brother Roger

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Sources: grokipedia.com, wikipedia.org, kirche-im-sr.de, deutschlandfunk.de

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