Quotes by Hans Peter Royer
Hans Peter Royer (1962–2013) — Bergführer, Buchautor, Leiter der Bibelschule Tauernhof und Prediger · evangelikal / freikirchlich (Fackelträger) · Österreich
Hans Peter Royer (1962–2013) war ein österreichischer Bergführer, Buchautor, Prediger und langjähriger Leiter des Bibel- und Freizeitzentrums Tauernhof in Schladming. Er prägte die christuszentrierte Erlebnispädagogik, die sportliche Grenzerfahrungen mit Glaubensvermittlung verband, und setzte sich für eine von religiösem Leistungsdruck befreite Nachfolge Jesu ein. Für heutige Bibelleser veranschaulichen seine Texte theologische Grundthemen wie Gnade, Hingabe und Gottvertrauen durch einprägsame Bilder aus dem Bergsport.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Prayer & Silence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Meaning & Identity, Discipleship, Growth & Character, Courage & Strength
Quotes by Hans Peter Royer
God counts on your failure far more than you do yourself.
Hans Peter Royer
Every time I say, "Jesus, I'm not capable...", He says, "So what? I am capable."
Hans Peter Royer
As a Christian you don't need to love the whole world. You only need to love the person standing right in front of you. That's enough!
Hans Peter Royer
Sometimes God calms the storm, but sometimes God lets the storm rage and calms his child.
Hans Peter Royer
Very few people understand how electricity works. But we don't sit in the dark for that reason until we've figured it all out. We cannot explain God, but we can live with him now.
Hans Peter Royer
If your prayer seems to go only as far as the ceiling, remember that God dwells beneath the ceiling too. We don't need to search for God somewhere out in the universe, for he lives within us.
Hans Peter Royer
How poor is the man who experiences a sunset on a mountaintop and has no one to thank for it.
Hans Peter Royer
Most people live in order to be loved. As a Christian, I may live because I am loved.
Hans Peter Royer
Dependence on a loving, caring God is not threatening, but is what first makes a life of freedom possible.
Hans Peter Royer
The best proof that something like water exists is the fact that man thirsts. And the best proof that God exists is the fact that man asks about God.
Hans Peter Royer
If we want to live like Jesus, we must understand how Jesus lived. It's not about copying his lifestyle, but about grasping how he lived. Not through copying but through grasping do we become free children of God.
Hans Peter Royer
The secret of your life and of this day is simply the fact that Christ lives in you! He is the hidden engine of your life. Don't forget that!
Hans Peter Royer
If something is worth doing, it's better to do it badly than not to do it at all.
Hans Peter Royer
Nothing keeps me closer to God than the feeling of my own weakness.
Hans Peter Royer
Remember today: Jesus Christ has risen from the dead and is enjoying the best of health today. He lives.
Hans Peter Royer
God can only place something good in our hand if we first open it. A clenched fist cannot receive anything.
Hans Peter Royer
God does not primarily want our service and our work; he wants us.
Hans Peter Royer
The Christian life is not like a rower but like a sailor. I only need to set my sail correctly each day and stand in the right relationship with my Lord — everything else he does.
Hans Peter Royer
It is not primarily about loving God, but about receiving God's love.
Hans Peter Royer
Needing Jesus Christ is humanity's greatest perfection.
Hans Peter Royer
The difference between fact and truth: it is a fact that I sometimes don't feel like a child of God at all. It is the truth that I am a child of God every minute of my life.
Hans Peter Royer
Most Christians believe that God loves them. But they think they still have to do something special for God so that he will like them too. The truth is: God is in love with you and wants to live with you today!
Hans Peter Royer
We need not be ashamed or feel guilty when we doubt God and his word. For God is merciful to the doubter, and we may come to him with our doubts.
Hans Peter Royer
A life lived out of faith makes an invisible God visible.
Hans Peter Royer
God has destined us for rest, and not only in heaven, but already here and now.
Hans Peter Royer
I need far more discipline to be quiet before God, to talk things over with him first and look to Jesus, than to become active and busy myself.
Hans Peter Royer
From now on I will get up every day at five in the morning and pray for an hour, even if it kills me! The result? It killed me!
Hans Peter Royer
I wish for myself that looking at a person would be the same as praying for that person!
Hans Peter Royer
Too many Christians today live as driven people instead of called people, because they don't recognize God's voice.
Hans Peter Royer
Because God's voice is so full of authority and goodwill, it never needs to be loud or hysterical.
Hans Peter Royer
I cannot embrace the setting sun, I will not be able to kiss the mountain or caress the beautiful cave, but I can grow still and thank the one who made it all, and worship him.
Hans Peter Royer
Where a person loses their life for Jesus, they discover with astonishment that they gain it. For we must die before we live, so that we may live before we die.
Hans Peter Royer
Never call God good just because things are going well for you, for God is good even when things go badly for you.
Hans Peter Royer
Suffering never destroys faith in God - at most it destroys a false faith.
Hans Peter Royer
Thank you for the person you find unlikeable. You will discover it is very hard to think badly of someone you are praying for right now.
Hans Peter Royer
Make God the one you talk to in all your thoughts, whether in the car, while shopping, or at the computer. Discuss with God exactly what you are doing right now. It will change your life!
Hans Peter Royer
A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, but one who does not think of himself at all.
Hans Peter Royer
If I recognize that Christ, the risen one, is present today and lives in me, then my future is as great as God himself.
Hans Peter Royer
To bind myself to Jesus in full trust that he means well for me does not limit my life, but rather is what first enables me to fully unfold.
Hans Peter Royer
You must die before you live, so that you live before you die!
Hans Peter Royer
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Sources: wikipedia.org, livenet.ch, jesus.de, das-wort-der-wahrheit.de
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