Quotes by Gudrun Zydek

Gudrun Zydek (b. 1944) — Autorin und Aphoristikerin · Spiritualität · Deutschland

Gudrun Zydek (* 1944) ist eine deutsche Autorin und Aphoristikerin, die seit Mitte der 1990er-Jahre durch Sinnsprüche und Gedichte bekannt wurde. Ihre Texte verbinden christlich inspirierte Werte mit lebenspraktischer Spiritualität und thematisieren Glauben, Demut sowie die Bewältigung von Krisen. Für Bibelleser bieten ihre prägnanten Gedanken leicht zugängliche Impulse, weshalb sie häufig in Gemeindebriefen, Kalendern und Spruchsammlungen zitiert werden.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Love, Faith & Trust, Prayer & Silence, Service & Love of Neighbour, Wisdom & Understanding, Hope & Confidence, Humility & Pride, Guilt & Forgiveness

Quotes by Gudrun Zydek

An intimate prayer is an exchange: God takes the weight from your heart and fills it with the lightness of trust!
Gudrun Zydek

A prayer you speak for others also lowers peace into your own heart.
Gudrun Zydek

Never darken your own life out of compassion for the suffering of others. Be rather the sunbeam that shines into their darkness.
Gudrun Zydek

The most loving deeds are the hidden ones. They are enough in themselves.
Gudrun Zydek

My faith may not influence the course of the stars, but it certainly influences the course of my life.
Gudrun Zydek

Not only faith doubts itself, but unbelief does too!
Gudrun Zydek

Whoever truly loves also risks making themselves unpopular!
Gudrun Zydek

Be lenient and forgiving - it eases not only the other's heart, but your own as well!
Gudrun Zydek

There is a love that escapes infatuation and becomes a bridge between earth and heaven. It preserves happiness in this world!
Gudrun Zydek

Don't just give your life meaning—give that meaning life!
Gudrun Zydek

God always hears our prayers, but we often don't understand His answer because we are listening in the wrong direction.
Gudrun Zydek

We regard God a bit like the fire department. It's there, but most of the time you don't need it.
Gudrun Zydek

Wisdom is the happy marriage of knowledge and love!
Gudrun Zydek

It should not be the church that fills and determines our life, but God — our life, and the church!
Gudrun Zydek

I don't have to share the faith of others, but I can take part in them.
Gudrun Zydek

True love does not demand. It gives and gives, for by its very nature it cannot act otherwise.
Gudrun Zydek

The freedom of the wise person submits itself to the wisdom of God.
Gudrun Zydek

Love knows all the abysses of life and is the only power that can also overcome them.
Gudrun Zydek

Recognizing one's own imperfection is always also the first grasp of perfection.
Gudrun Zydek

God did not give his laws, his Ten Commandments, an expiration date, for an eternal truth always remains eternal truth, no matter how the times may change.
Gudrun Zydek

Impatience often smothers in the bud what needs quiet and seclusion to ripen.
Gudrun Zydek

You don't have to understand people. It's enough to love them!
Gudrun Zydek

Whoever calls God their own in their heart already carries the blessedness, the claim to it, within themselves.
Gudrun Zydek

Give what you have of love, in a kind word, an unexpected smile, a good deed, and you bring joy into this world!
Gudrun Zydek

Regret is useless if you lack the insight to do what is right.
Gudrun Zydek

The nature of friendship and love is to catch us when we are falling, to give us hope in dark moments, to be there for us!
Gudrun Zydek

Patience is the oil on the waves of life!
Gudrun Zydek

There is more distress and sin through omission than through action in this world!
Gudrun Zydek

Let us seek the spiritual conversation with God in prayer – in joyful prayer – not only in our dark hours of despair!
Gudrun Zydek

Don't settle for the world when you can have heaven!
Gudrun Zydek

The thing about love is actually quite simple. That's what makes it so hard.
Gudrun Zydek

Do not fear the dark, what lies ahead of you and hides itself, for truth and light always go before you, to illuminate your next steps!
Gudrun Zydek

Don't just wish for something. Wish for EVERYTHING ... that God sees fit!
Gudrun Zydek

Whoever denies God also denies the unstilled longing deep in his soul.
Gudrun Zydek

A prayer works like an altar we erect in our soul, like a sacred place of power that God strengthens and enriches with his power at every prayer of ours.
Gudrun Zydek

There is no humility without wisdom, and no wisdom without humility.
Gudrun Zydek

Whoever can smile in sorrow has already lit the light of hope.
Gudrun Zydek

Whoever does not know humility overestimates their own importance.
Gudrun Zydek

The Bible, the Word of God, can never grow old or go out of fashion, for life itself is ageless, timeless, eternal — as eternal as the God from whom it comes.
Gudrun Zydek

Enlightenment is rarely a spontaneous divine inspiration. It is a consequence of a way of life in the divine Spirit, it is faith displayed, a fulfilled longing for divine truth, the only truth.
Gudrun Zydek

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