Quotes by Manfred Siebald

Manfred Siebald (b. 1948) — Liedermacher christlicher Popularmusik, Amerikanist · evangelisch · Deutschland

Manfred Siebald (* 1948) ist ein deutscher Liedermacher und emeritierter Professor für Amerikanistik an der Universität Mainz. Er gilt als einflussreicher Vertreter christlicher Popularmusik im deutschsprachigen Raum, dessen Lieder theologische Inhalte mit sprachlicher Genauigkeit und Alltagsbeobachtungen verbinden. Für Bibelleser bieten seine vielfach in Gesangbücher übernommenen Texte prägnante Reflexionen über biblische Themen wie Gnade, Trost und Nachfolge.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Hope & Confidence, Peace & Rest, Grace & Redemption, Time & Transience, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Courage & Strength, Love, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit

Quotes by Manfred Siebald

Go under grace, go with God's blessing, go in his peace, whatever you do. Go under grace, listen to God's word, stay near him, whether you wake or rest.

Manfred Siebald

The drop on the hot stone can be the beginning of a rain.

Manfred Siebald

Not lost is the time lived with God. Years sown by him grow into eternity.

Manfred Siebald

Give me the longer breath; my breath doesn't reach very far. Once more I want to steal a breath in your eternity. If I share the mile with one who cannot make it alone, let me still accompany him on the second one; give me the breath, the strength.

Manfred Siebald

A stone falls into the water, quite secretly, quietly and softly, and however small it is, it still draws wide circles. Where God's great love falls into a person, it works on in deed and word, out into our world.

Manfred Siebald

The most important thing people need to know about God is that God is incomprehensible and yet close enough to touch.

Manfred Siebald

The deep peace we cannot understand, which flows like a stream into our lives, which can heal wounds we cannot see, because it is God's peace.

Manfred Siebald

And even if we possessed the whole world, it would gain us nothing if we forgot God over it.

Manfred Siebald

Whoever knows the water in the desert and keeps silent is at fault when the dying pass it by. Whoever knows the firm paths through the swamp and does not point them out is at fault when others go under.

Manfred Siebald

10 quotes in total — browse the collection.

Sources: wikipedia.org, sonntagsblatt.de, bg-wob.de

All quotes · lumen.bible