Quotes by Hans-Joachim Eckstein
Hans-Joachim Eckstein (b. 1950) — Professor für Neues Testament, Theologe, Sachbuchautor und Referent · evangelisch · Deutschland
Hans-Joachim Eckstein (* 1950) ist ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe und emeritierter Professor für Neues Testament an den Universitäten Heidelberg und Tübingen. Sein Werk verbindet neutestamentliche Wissenschaft mit persönlicher Frömmigkeit und stellt die Rechtfertigung aus Gnade sowie den Glauben als Beziehung in den Mittelpunkt. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet er theologische Einsichten und Meditationen, die exegetische Genauigkeit in eine alltagsnahe Sprache übersetzen.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Meaning & Identity, Humility & Pride, Love, Guilt & Forgiveness, Peace & Rest, Illness & Weakness
Quotes by Hans-Joachim Eckstein
If God is for you, how can you be against yourself?
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You, Lord, have not just come ninety-nine steps to meet me, so that everything now depended on my one remaining step — you have come all hundred steps toward me. So now I can walk every step I have to take with you and through you.
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The speck in the other person's eye is usually made of the same wood as the log in our own; that's exactly why we see it so well!
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
Though we may have distanced ourselves a thousand steps from God, thanks to God's love it takes no more than a single step to return to him.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
We love to be needed, even though what we actually need is to be loved.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
It may sometimes seem to you as if you were falling into a bottomless pit, but you will never fall deeper than into the sheltering hands of God.
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What does it mean to believe in Christ, then—joy or sorrow, gain or loss, strength or weakness, peace or struggle, happiness or suffering? Both—and the first in the midst of the second.
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It does not depend on a great faith, but on faith in the greatness of God.
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We Christians are the only Bible that a broad section of the population still reads today, but I fear we are the worst translation.
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To believe means to rely on God, in order to be at rest in him.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
The search for ourselves is so difficult because in the end we are less bent on finding than on being found.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
You do not love us because we are valuable, but we recognize ourselves as valuable because you love us.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
If God wants to use a person, he can use them exactly as they are - humanly speaking too old or too young, too incapable, too fearful or too weak, but in God's eyes loved just the same.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
It may well be that you are a hopeless case, but when we look at the people of the Bible, it seems our God has a downright preference for hopeless cases.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
It is not the person who holds fast by the power of his faith in God, but God who, by his power, holds the person in faith.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
I do not carry my faith — my faith carries me.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
When we recognize that God's heart beats for us humans, we are freed from constantly feeling our own pulse.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
What is expected of us as believers in Christ is not action for God, but reaction to God's action.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
You should not praise the day before the evening - but you should praise the Lord.
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Some sin is, in truth, a longing for God that has gone astray.
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Since our love for God is rooted in the gift of God's love for us, our love for Christ grows to the extent that we allow ourselves to be given to by him.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
Those who love are free and bound at the same time. They can leave, but they want to stay. They can protect themselves, but they want to open up. They belong to themselves, but they give themselves away.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
The most precious love is not the one that costs the most self-overcoming, but the one that, through all its letting go and giving, keeps making those who love ever richer.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
How do I find a person God can use? - By looking in the mirror.
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We don't first have to believe so that God can work in us; rather, we can believe because God is already working in us.
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I myself know no perfect Christians - but many who completely misjudge themselves and Christ.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
When we pray, God doesn't want to hear something new from us - he wants to hear us, again and again, anew.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
Often our exhaustion is not rooted in a lack of strength but in the excess of our burdens. Then we should not ask God for more strength, but for more insight.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
The mystery of faith is not expressed in boundless personal success, but in the way we learn to live with our limits and failures.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
Our confidence is not grounded in the fact that we have grasped Christ, but in the fact that he has grasped us, so that we in turn may reach for him and hold on to him.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
Love is not everything - but without love, everything is nothing.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
All our doing can happen in the creaturely serenity of those who do not have to create themselves.
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To live hopefully means to let yourself be surprised by joy and disproved by success, rather than being confirmed by misfortune.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
Foreign influences may temporarily succeed in taking your Lord away from you, but they cannot succeed in taking you away from your Lord!
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If we belong to Christ and he is our life, then we may indeed still die, but we can no longer be dead.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
The greatest happiness surely lies in finding in Jesus Christ something that becomes even more important to us than our own happiness.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
When do I live at peace in God? When I learn that I am more dispensable for my own life than God is, and recognize that God never wants to dispense with me in his life.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
Surprisingly, the way to myself began where I set out on the way to you, my God.
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If we could see ourselves for just one second with the eyes of God's love, our self-doubt would vanish for all eternity.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
To believe means: to leave in order to find, to let go in order to begin, to release in order to grasp, to abandon oneself in order to win oneself.
Hans-Joachim Eckstein
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