Quotes by Jan Dobutowitsch

Jan Dobutowitsch (b. 1979) — Diakon und Autor christlicher Aphorismen · evangelikal · Deutschland

Jan Dobutowitsch (* 1979) ist ein deutscher Diakon, Gestalter und Autor christlicher Aphorismen. Bekannt ist er für prägnante Sinnsprüche und geistliche Impulse zu Themen wie Glaubenspraxis, Aufrichtigkeit und Anbetung. In christlichen Medien und Gemeindepublikationen dienen seine Gedanken heute als alltagsnahe Anregungen für Andacht und Reflexion.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Growth & Character, Faith & Trust, Patience & Waiting, Wisdom & Understanding, Prayer & Silence, Humility & Pride, Guilt & Forgiveness, Witness & Mission

Quotes by Jan Dobutowitsch

A real step of faith is only completed once the second leg has followed and I manage the transition from control to trust.
Jan Dobutowitsch

On your knees you gain the right perspective to see God's greatness.
Jan Dobutowitsch

Sin is the red carpet to death. Sanctification, on the other hand, is the narrow trail to life.
Jan Dobutowitsch

In simplicity and sincerity the mystery of worship is revealed.
Jan Dobutowitsch

Cultural relevance is the track on which the train of the gospel has a clear run.
Jan Dobutowitsch

Waiting means, in the end, trading crispbread for steak, after a long time of hunger.
Jan Dobutowitsch

The high price of insight is often renunciation.
Jan Dobutowitsch

Giving up something you would not get anyway is hard, but a small achievement. Giving up something you could get is painful, yet surmountable. Giving up something you can get is either foolishness or a quality of the heart called insight and maturity.
Jan Dobutowitsch

Patience is a virtue, not only in youth.
Jan Dobutowitsch

God only permits productive damage in his children!
Jan Dobutowitsch

Renunciation is only a stone in the pit of your stomach when trust in the Creator isn't the butterflies there instead.
Jan Dobutowitsch

We cannot face the 'cooling of hearts' in our time with human good will alone. We must appeal to the origin of love and truly give space to the divine power of love within us. Otherwise we become heartless fighters for justice, who strangle people with the truth.
Jan Dobutowitsch

Patience is the ability to give something beautiful time to grow. I cannot shout at the seedling and reproach it for not yet being a beautiful plant that refuses to unfold its full splendor. Give it space, water it from time to time in the right measure, and rejoice in the small steps by which it thrives, to become what was placed within it — its destiny.
Jan Dobutowitsch

A monk must be a person who willingly lets himself be changed by insight and obedience—qualities which he in turn internalizes through a disciplined process of learning in his contemplative engagement with the Word of God, and brings into practical form through the grace of God.
Jan Dobutowitsch

Sources: jandobi.de, yumpu.com, evangeliums.net

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