Quotes by Jochen Klepper
Jochen Klepper (1903–1942) — Dichter · Lutherisch · Deutschland
Jochen Klepper (1903–1942) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Journalist und lutherischer Liederdichter, der vor allem in Breslau und Berlin wirkte. Bekannt wurde er durch Kirchenlieder wie „Die Nacht ist vorgedrungen“ sowie durch seine Tagebücher aus der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, ehe er 1942 angesichts der drohenden Deportation seiner jüdischen Familie mit ihr den Freitod wählte. Bibellesern bezeugen seine Gesangbuchverse bis heute ein von lutherischer Kreuzestheologie geprägtes Festhalten an Gottes Treue in existenzieller Bedrängnis.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Prayer & Silence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Hope & Confidence, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Joy & Gratitude, Fear & Anxiety
Quotes by Jochen Klepper
I know nothing at all, except that God reserves everything to himself, but holds on to me.
Jochen Klepper
You have touched my eyelids. I sleep without worry. He who led me into this night will guide me also tomorrow.
Jochen Klepper
Stop your questioning now, help is enough. Yes, I will carry you, as I always carried you.
Jochen Klepper
He wakes me every morning; he wakens even my ear. God does not hide himself, he leads the day up for me, so that with his word I greet the new light. Already at dawn's gate he is near me and speaks.
Jochen Klepper
He wants to wrap me early with his word and light, to promise and to fulfill, so that I lack nothing; he will pay me full wages, not asking whether I fail. His word will shine bright, however dark the day may be!
Jochen Klepper
Only the Christian can live fully in the present. For the past is crossed out for him, and the future is certain for him.
Jochen Klepper
Sometimes I think: whenever danger threatened in some corner of my life, God carried me gently to a sheltered place.
Jochen Klepper
Do not look at what you yourself are in your guilt and weakness. Look at him who has come to speak for you. Look at what befalls you today, today, when your Savior has come in, to bring you home again on eagle-strong wings.
Jochen Klepper
The hands that rest in prayer, he makes strong for action. And what the hands of the one who prays do, happens according to his counsel.
Jochen Klepper
Sometimes one thinks God should give a visible sign amid all the resistances of life, one that would help us. But this very thing is his sign: that he lets us endure, dare, and bear it.
Jochen Klepper
That God is so great does not surprise me so much. But that he comes so close to us!
Jochen Klepper
I lie, Lord, in your keeping and sleep in perfect peace. He who rests in your arms is granted true rest.
Jochen Klepper
We have a God at our side who helps and saves us from death, and who in the midst of the battle beds us down in a safe tent.
Jochen Klepper
He whom all angels serve now becomes a child and a servant. God himself has appeared to atone for his right. Whoever is guilty on earth need no longer veil his head; he shall be saved if he believes in the child.
Jochen Klepper
God must lead us down deep, if we are to find firm ground in him.
Jochen Klepper
He blesses the fruit of your trees, your child, your land, your cattle. He blesses whatever seeks the blessing. Grace never slumbers.
Jochen Klepper
God wills to dwell in darkness, and yet has lit it up! As if he meant to reward, so he judges the world! He who built the earth's circle does not abandon the sinner. Whoever trusted the Son here, comes there out of judgment!
Jochen Klepper
How great must be the glory of the transfigured world, if our wicked and tormented heart can be filled with such radiance merely in anticipating it!
Jochen Klepper
However loudly the day surrounds you, now be still and listen, for he who gives you gifts and loves you wants to bless that gift.
Jochen Klepper
It is not always about what was achieved or not achieved; rather, what must be decisive for a fulfilled or wasted time is probably which language God spoke to us in it.
Jochen Klepper
Not to know one's time, and yet to believe every moment of it counted — that is a great peace in a world full of fear.
Jochen Klepper
He speaks as on the day he created the world. Then fear and lament fall silent; nothing counts anymore but his call! The word of eternal faithfulness that God swears to us humans, I experience it anew, just as a disciple hears it.
Jochen Klepper
Now that the heart has released all it holds of fortune and goods, come, Comforter, Holy Spirit, and comfort — you who flow from God's heart.
Jochen Klepper
From the Old Testament until now, I see that God holds the praise of those who sleep as well as those who cannot.
Jochen Klepper
If you wait in hope and stay still, strength will flow to you. It remains God's will to work wonders. Through stillness and hope you will grow strong and steady, and see heaven open, which will not abandon you.
Jochen Klepper
Even the hairs of your head are surely numbered by him. He remains the Wonderful One, to whom nothing, however small, is lacking. He whom no sea can hold and no mountain ridge contain has left his own kingdom and come near to you as a human being.
Jochen Klepper
I have experienced God's help too often to be allowed to indulge my melancholy.
Jochen Klepper
Whoever believes in God's forgiveness can bear their past.
Jochen Klepper
As deeply as one stands in repentance, so deeply one stands in grace.
Jochen Klepper
The world is only bearable because he who overcame it will come again.
Jochen Klepper
I cannot make Christmas a feast of the past. Each year Christmas grows and gives another light to the whole year.
Jochen Klepper
One should look back on everything past only to the extent that it demands spontaneous gratitude and the overwhelming recognition of divine guidance.
Jochen Klepper
That too can be a language of God: that he makes one ask and long ever more intensely.
Jochen Klepper
God finds the one he seeks.
Jochen Klepper
God has already established his kingdom, while we still lie deep in battle. Even death and hell are destroyed. His word is life, working, victory.
Jochen Klepper
Now that the heart has lifted itself to you and knows itself held by you alone, stay with us, Father. And our lament turns to praise. To you be glory!
Jochen Klepper
A dark, stormy, mild, gloomy day - like a fading and drifting fate. God is greater than our heart.
Jochen Klepper
God will again and again put us into states of waiting, which together make up real life: life out of Pentecost and Advent.
Jochen Klepper
He blesses you in village and town, in cellar, chamber, field. What the Lord has blessed for you shall remain well-tended forever.
Jochen Klepper
All the boundaries of my days, God, bend into your circle, so that I speak only words I know come from you!
Jochen Klepper
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Sources: wikipedia.org, tegel-borsigwalde.de, deutschlandfunkkultur.de, ekd.de
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