Quotes by Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Hermann Heinrich Grafe (1818–1869) — Kaufmann, Laientheologe, Kirchenliederdichter, Begründer der Freien evangelischen Gemeinden · evangelisch-freikirchlich · Deutschland

Hermann Heinrich Grafe (1818–1869) war ein deutscher Kaufmann, Laientheologe und Kirchenliederdichter im bergischen Elberfeld und Barmen. Er gründete 1854 die erste Freie evangelische Gemeinde in Deutschland und vertrat das Konzept einer staatsunabhängigen Freiwilligkeitsgemeinde, womit er mit der damaligen Volkskirche brach und theologische Debatten mit Landeskirchlichen sowie Baptisten führte. Für Bibelleser heute steht sein Wirken für den Impuls zu persönlicher Glaubensentscheidung und einer überkonfessionellen geistlichen Einheit aller Gläubigen.

Era: Revival & the 19th Century

Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Humility & Pride, Love, Growth & Character, Discipleship, Meaning & Identity, Guilt & Forgiveness

Quotes by Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Do not investigate how you have the Savior, but simply grasp that he has you.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

By law I ought to love God; by grace I can.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Far more people are pious out of fear than out of love, and that is not gospel-shaped.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

I cannot forget myself better than when I think of the Savior, who never forgets me.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

It takes even more grace to turn a self-righteous Pharisee into a poor sinner than to turn a poor sinner into a righteous one.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Not what we know, but what we live, makes us Christians.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Whoever can bear the most of another's burden is the strongest Christian.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

There are Christians who turn faith into a system; I would rather make it a matter of the heart.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

To recognize one's sins is bitter. To confess one's sins is sour. But sweet is the forgiveness by which God forgives sins.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

The Savior wins my heart for himself by showing me his heart for me.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

There are times of drought for the inner life, meant to dry out the false extent of faith down to its true goodness.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

We are annoyed only to the extent that we are not free of ourselves.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Only faith that does not give up its cause understands the art of waiting.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Reconciliation with God also reconciles me with life.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

My sin drives me to Jesus, and his grace binds me to him.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

The same star that here, as the evening star, lights up the night of my life, will one day shine for me as the morning star in the resurrection.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Everyone considers their own thorn in the flesh the most painful, because they know too little of the other's.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

The right evangelical way of preaching is not merely to speak about the love of God, but to speak out of it.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

The more Christ rules me, the freer I am.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

One only needs to be able to accept being saved by grace, and one is saved.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

In the kingdom of God, copies are frowned upon. Every born-again person has the life of Christ as his own.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Where we feel the fire of Christ's love, we do not ask for long on which hearth it burns.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Faith without trial is like truth without contradiction: dead.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

It is not necessary to read much of God's word every time; but what one reads, one must read fully, take in fully.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

It is better to be humbled by one's pride than to become proud of one's humility.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Where the world likes to believe, there you should worry; and where the world likes to worry, there you should believe.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

The deepest worship of God has no words. When I lose my awareness of self in Christ, I have everything in him, and he becomes everything to me.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

We build on your grace, freely given to us on our life's path, so rich and unbounded: it lets us find forgiveness for all sins in your sacrificial blood, and grants us comfort and courage.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Confessing our weakness requires a certain strength.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

One does not enter heaven through many tears; but there are indeed many tears before one enters heaven.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

On him I want to rely completely! Then I will never be left alone.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Take me, Lord Jesus, wholly as I am, and make me wholly as you want me to be!
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

God so often makes us repeat the same lessons in life, because we forget them so easily.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

When God's way crosses our way, there arises a crossroad.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

One will always proclaim the gospel most effectively when the people one addresses feel that one speaks out of love for them.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

To know what my works are worth before God, I must ask myself what I would do if no one saw or judged me.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

The less baggage, the lighter one travels - also through this life toward the eternal home.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Whoever wants to please everyone will seldom hit what is right.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

Many live for knowledge and yet do not know how to live.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

True Bible reading happens when, within the visible words, their invisible spirit addresses me, seizes me, penetrates me, overwhelms me, masters me.
Hermann Heinrich Grafe

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