Quotes by Friedhold Vogel
Friedhold Vogel (1937–2006) — Pastor, Evangelist und Buchautor · methodistisch / evangelikal · Deutschland
Friedhold Vogel (1937–2006) war ein deutscher Pastor der Evangelisch-methodistischen Kirche sowie ein überregional tätiger Evangelist und Buchautor. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch Schriften und Vorträge über das persönliche Gebetsleben, Seelsorge und die Notwendigkeit einer bewussten Lebensübergabe an Jesus Christus. Heutigen Bibellesern vermittelt er praktische Impulse für eine vertiefte Gebetspraxis und das Vertrauen auf Gott in Krisenzeiten.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Prayer & Silence, Faith & Trust, Joy & Gratitude, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Love, Growth & Character, Freedom & Truth, Service & Love of Neighbour
Quotes by Friedhold Vogel
Worship is sung or spoken wonder at the fact that we are God's beloved children.
Friedhold Vogel
When I speak first at the beginning of the day the name that is above all names, I don't want to have a work conversation, but a conversation of love.
Friedhold Vogel
Whoever lives with Jesus Christ always has a green light to pray. All joys or sorrows, all thrilling experiences or disappointments, all gifts or losses - everything can be an occasion to speak with him.
Friedhold Vogel
Prayer is not about a liturgical act, prayer is not about fulfilling duty, but it is about relationship, about love, about longing.
Friedhold Vogel
In prayer you may pour out your heart before God, and this emptying of your heart relieves and frees you.
Friedhold Vogel
Just as loving parents long for their children to talk with them, converse with them, tell them what moves them, ask them for advice, so God, your Father, longs for you to speak with him.
Friedhold Vogel
In prayer I may speak and listen very close to Jesus Christ, laugh and cry, marvel and ask - I may be just as I truly am.
Friedhold Vogel
Intercession changes my attitude toward people. Prejudice, antipathy and indifference are broken down. I find access to the hearts of those for whom I pray.
Friedhold Vogel
Intercession leads us out of the grip of our own troubles and problems into the wide, liberating space of serving God.
Friedhold Vogel
There are prayers that sound like an order in a restaurant. God is supposed to bring whatever the one praying wants.
Friedhold Vogel
Nothing is too ordinary for us not to ask God about it.
Friedhold Vogel
God wants you to pour out your heart before him, not a flood of memorized verses.
Friedhold Vogel
Meeting God in prayer is like a sunbath.
Friedhold Vogel
God wants our heart first, not our effort.
Friedhold Vogel
Worship is being overwhelmed by the love and glory of God.
Friedhold Vogel
When praising God becomes a way of life, life becomes a healing infection.
Friedhold Vogel
Gratitude and giving thanks are not the same thing. Gratitude is a matter of feeling, because I have experienced a kindness. Giving thanks is a matter of will and understanding. I recognize that God means well by me even in puzzling ways of leading.
Friedhold Vogel
Through intercession, those who pray are led into breadth. They find their way out of the narrowness of their own small life and experience an expanding of horizons.
Friedhold Vogel
That is the deepest secret of prayer: a person meets God, his heavenly Father, and opens his heart in his presence.
Friedhold Vogel
Before I can speak effectively with people about Jesus Christ, I must first have spoken with Jesus Christ, engaged, about people.
Friedhold Vogel
The foundation of intercession must be love—for love opens the door to God's heart, and it also opens the door to the hearts of people.
Friedhold Vogel
God reveals himself to those who pray. He draws near to them. He opens his heart to them.
Friedhold Vogel
In prayer, it is important to come very close to God. His presence matters more than your prayer.
Friedhold Vogel
Praising God tears the prison doors of inner night, of life's confinement and hopelessness, off their hinges and leads into the freedom of the children of God.
Friedhold Vogel
Jesus Christ does not primarily want useful ground crew, but people who long for fellowship with him. There is no fellowship with Jesus Christ without prayer.
Friedhold Vogel
Only those who marvel can worship, and only worshippers learn to marvel more and more.
Friedhold Vogel
When you encounter God in prayer and then also live with God, you will not be dressed up religiously, but changed from within.
Friedhold Vogel
God is a loving Father. We may and must leave to him the decision about which requests he answers and when he answers them.
Friedhold Vogel
Worship is looking away from yourself and looking, fascinated, toward Jesus Christ, who is your Creator, your Redeemer and your Perfecter.
Friedhold Vogel
Children of God have direct access to the throne of God. They may turn directly to the Father, and they may turn directly to the Son of God.
Friedhold Vogel
Prayer breaks through the dimensions of space and time and fills life with eternity.
Friedhold Vogel
Where prayer happens, the spiritual climate is transformed. People feel at ease. Love becomes tangible. God's Holy Spirit fills the rooms.
Friedhold Vogel
Prayer must not be an aimless window-shopping, no distant chatter. Always become concrete when you speak with God.
Friedhold Vogel
Praising God is not primarily a matter of feeling, but a matter of will and mind.
Friedhold Vogel
Prayer is not a turning around oneself, but a spiritual journey toward a goal: God!
Friedhold Vogel
Prayer alone can lead us to the divine sources of love and strength that we need.
Friedhold Vogel
Asking in the name of Jesus Christ is asking at the center of his will. It is wanting what he wants. Longing for what he longs for. Wishing what corresponds to his wishes.
Friedhold Vogel
Our prayer has a transforming effect. It shapes the atmosphere of a country. It can influence laws. It can create and preserve peace.
Friedhold Vogel
If you believe in Jesus Christ, if your life has taken a new direction through forgiveness of sin, then prayer is the outstanding hallmark of your new existence.
Friedhold Vogel
Whoever only speaks words in prayer, even if they are biblically sound and sound impressive, does not reach God. God wants our heart to speak.
Friedhold Vogel
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