Quotes by Hanna Hümmer

Hanna Hümmer (1910–1977) — Musikerin, Autorin geistlicher Schriften, Mitgründerin der Communität Christusbruderschaft Selbitz · evangelisch-lutherisch · Deutschland

Hanna Hümmer (1910–1977) war eine deutsche Musikerin, geistliche Autorin und Mitbegründerin der evangelischen Communität Christusbruderschaft in Selbitz. Als langjährige geistliche Leiterin der Bruderschaft prägte sie die Erneuerung verbindlichen klösterlichen Lebens im Protestantismus durch Gebet, Stille und Bibelmeditation. Bibellesern begegnet sie heute vor allem durch ihre kontemplativen Texte, Lieder und Andachten, die zu einer meditativen Schriftbetrachtung anleiten.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Peace & Rest, Prayer & Silence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Joy & Gratitude, Service & Love of Neighbour, Love

Quotes by Hanna Hümmer

Diakonia means: the heart in heaven, the hands with the neighbor, the feet in the dust.
Hanna Hümmer

What you see in the other, you kindle in them.
Hanna Hümmer

Silence is like a coat God lays around us.
Hanna Hümmer

There is no moment that has to be lived without God.
Hanna Hümmer

Bent knees build more church than hurried feet.
Hanna Hümmer

It doesn't matter that you do something special, but that God does something special with you - as HE wants, when HE wants, where HE wants.
Hanna Hümmer

Live on the few words of Jesus, let them be enough for you! Move them in your heart! They are like sparks from eternity that never stop burning in you. They dig into your life, glow through and warm it, so that it becomes eternity.
Hanna Hümmer

Your smallest act of service is divinely ennobled by the footwashing of Jesus.
Hanna Hümmer

Through all the nights of your life, through all that happens, whatever it may be, steps in the presence of the one who was, and who is, and who is to come.
Hanna Hümmer

God has created for himself a generation that seems almost shy in this world, like the fifth wheel on a wagon: these are the ones who can do nothing else but love Jesus and lovingly bear witness to him.
Hanna Hümmer

Life can begin once more, because God is love, and in love there is no end.
Hanna Hümmer

Prayer is like a bird that lets itself be carried by the air. Let yourself fall into the current of the Spirit, into the wind of his breath. He will carry you and shape all the singing and praying within you.
Hanna Hümmer

Only love animates our doing. In love, even the smallest task can shine.
Hanna Hümmer

God is not at boundless distance, but very near. Every moment of your life may flow into conversation with him.
Hanna Hümmer

It is not the principle of achievement that will shine, but love that gives itself away.
Hanna Hümmer

Blessed are the still, for they hear the footsteps of God.
Hanna Hümmer

Believe it: God's closeness is so strong that nothing else may have power over you anymore.
Hanna Hümmer

Thanks for the all-encompassing power of his redemption. Give him honor over your everyday life, then all pious habit will fall silent in the song of love.
Hanna Hümmer

People of silence are people of strength.
Hanna Hümmer

Behold! There is no moment in your life without the kind gaze of his eyes, without the kind guidance of his love.
Hanna Hümmer

Jesus Christ gave his life into death, so that my death might be permeated by life.
Hanna Hümmer

When the Risen One meets you and you hear his word, the whole clarity of God enters your life and breaks through your time with eternity, your misery with his victory, your sorrow with infinite joy.
Hanna Hümmer

Silence is not weary waiting, but innermost wakefulness.
Hanna Hümmer

Blessed are the meek, who undermine the misery of this world through love, who take up the suffering of people and carry it to God.
Hanna Hümmer

God says to you: Listen, you are Mine. This total and intimate dependence on God is the deepest fulfillment and joy.
Hanna Hümmer

The praise to God is great joy that pervades everything in our life. In meeting God our soul begins to sing.
Hanna Hümmer

In the glory of his love, in the mystery of his sacrifice and his victory, your life may become infinitely joyful.
Hanna Hümmer

From the cross, solutions continually go out into all our circumstances – let us silently worship and give thanks for this.
Hanna Hümmer

Because we rest in Jesus, we are strong personalities.
Hanna Hümmer

Let creative stillness, singing and prayer be the center of your life, not a marginal thing at the edge of your days.
Hanna Hümmer

Since Jesus came into this world, the great eve of the Kingdom of God has dawned over a day-weary and night-dark age.
Hanna Hümmer

God loves everyone equally: the small and the great, the weak and the strong, the more or less gifted.
Hanna Hümmer

Silence is the transfiguring radiance around a life consecrated to God.
Hanna Hümmer

The secret of God-guided people is silence in God.
Hanna Hümmer

The song of praise is only the simple reflection of what God has done in your soul.
Hanna Hümmer

Whoever does not come from the sanctuary has no strength, no authority to bless.
Hanna Hümmer

Blessed are the grateful, for they will have abundance.
Hanna Hümmer

Believing does not mean seeing miracles; believing means accepting the word of God in submission.
Hanna Hümmer

Peace comes where faith and obedience bow beneath the will of God.
Hanna Hümmer

If you are already with Jesus today and live with him, he will not deny you even in eternity.
Hanna Hümmer

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Sources: verlag-christusbruderschaft.de, wikipedia.org, christusbruderschaft.de

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