Quotes by Hermann von Bezzel

Hermann von Bezzel (1861–1917) — Theologe · Lutherisch · Deutschland

Hermann von Bezzel war ein deutscher lutherischer Theologe, der ab 1891 die Diakonissenanstalt Neuendettelsau leitete und von 1909 bis 1917 an der Spitze der bayerischen Landeskirche stand. Er vertrat eine schrift- und bekenntnistreue Kreuzestheologie des dienenden Handelns, fiel bei Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs 1914 jedoch auch durch zeitgebundenen patriotischen Überschwang und Kriegsaufrufe auf. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er vor allem durch geistliche Aphorismen zu Gebet, Trost und praktischer Nachfolge.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Humility & Pride, Peace & Rest, Joy & Gratitude, Faith & Trust, Prayer & Silence, Fear & Anxiety, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption

Quotes by Hermann von Bezzel

Yesterday is over, tomorrow is not yet here, and today the Lord helps.
Hermann von Bezzel

When the time was fulfilled, God sent not a mighty one, not a great thinker, not a conqueror, but into the manger a poor, weak child.
Hermann von Bezzel

The key to people's hearts will never be our cleverness, but always our love.
Hermann von Bezzel

At Golgotha sin did indeed not lose its power, but it lost its right.
Hermann von Bezzel

Through prayer, dust departs from the soul, the burden from the conscience, and fear from the heart.
Hermann von Bezzel

God always places grace only into beggars' hands.
Hermann von Bezzel

It is not good if you load tomorrow's ballast into your ship today – then it must surely sink!
Hermann von Bezzel

Lord, grant all who seek you that they may find you, and all who have found you that they may seek you afresh, until all our seeking and finding is fulfilled in your presence.
Hermann von Bezzel

What consecrates Sunday is not that you do no work on it, but that you let God work especially in you and for you on it.
Hermann von Bezzel

Thanksgiving is a power before which all dark forces retreat.
Hermann von Bezzel

Eternity is the correction of world history.
Hermann von Bezzel

God has only one thought, one will, one goal: that we all come to him.
Hermann von Bezzel

Whoever begins to thank God always finds more reason to thank God!
Hermann von Bezzel

Piety is the decision to call dependence on God happiness.
Hermann von Bezzel

The nature of faith is not to look at the visible and not to hold to the audible, but also to grasp the invisible and to take the incomprehensible as certain.
Hermann von Bezzel

The greatest power in life is gratitude.
Hermann von Bezzel

Only in silence does man prepare himself to receive, to have, and to give.
Hermann von Bezzel

It is a great thing: to stand at graves and yet remain joyful.
Hermann von Bezzel

To be pious means: to have enough in God. One might say: because I have all, I have everything.
Hermann von Bezzel

A Christian is a person who can wait.
Hermann von Bezzel

One cannot find rest if Jesus is not the center.
Hermann von Bezzel

Whoever obeys God, God obeys. Whoever surrenders to God, God places himself at his service. No path of obedience remains alone.
Hermann von Bezzel

Let every request be genuine, then He hears it!
Hermann von Bezzel

In the hour of death, when to the grateful person his whole life appears as grace, the ungrateful person knows nothing but to complain of lack; the paths were too rocky, and in ingratitude the heart grew cold, and since it was broken by ingratitude, it remains dead and lies in ingratitude.
Hermann von Bezzel

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Sources: wikipedia.org, karker.de, deutsche-biographie.de, youtube.com

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