Quotes by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Nicholas Wolterstorff (b. 1932) — Religionsphilosoph · reformiert · Vereinigte Staaten

Nicholas Wolterstorff (* 1932) ist ein US-amerikanischer Religionsphilosoph und reformierter Theologe, der am Calvin College sowie an der Yale University lehrte. Bekannt wurde er als Mitbegründer der Reformierten Erkenntnistheorie und durch seine Arbeiten über biblische Gerechtigkeit sowie das seelsorgerliche Trauerbuch „Klage um einen Sohn“. Während seine Gedanken zu Klage und der Barmherzigkeit Gottes vielen Lesern Orientierung bieten, lösten seine Kritik an der klassischen Gotteslehre und seine spätere theologische Befürwortung gleichgeschlechtlicher Partnerschaften in konservativen Kreisen Kontroversen aus.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Grief & Comfort, Love, Meaning & Identity, Wisdom & Understanding, Relationships & Family, Doubt & Hard Questions, Discipleship

Quotes by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Through the prism of my tears, I have beheld a suffering God.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

If I hadn't loved him, there wouldn't be this agony.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Every lament is a love song.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

In commanding us to love, God invites us to suffer.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

My grief wasn't about grief. It was about Eric.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

If Eric was worth loving when he was alive, then he's worth grieving over when dead. Why would he not be?

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Grief reorganizes your experience. It changes what you notice and what you don't notice, what's important and what's not important.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

How do I receive my suffering as blessing while repulsing the obscene thought that God jiggled the mountain to make me better?

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Suffering is a mystery, as deep as any in our existence.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Crying is the most appropriate thing you can think of.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

What I've learned is that you have to live the questions.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Love in our world is suffering love.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

We are one in suffering.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

How can we treasure the radiance while struggling against what brought it about?

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Am I sometimes to sorrow over my delight and sometimes to delight over my sorrow?

Nicholas Wolterstorff

In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed, but there also character is made.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

In that radiance, we see best what humanity was meant to be.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

I think we ought to own our grief.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Suffering may do us good, may be a blessing, something to be thankful for.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

I do not mean that they will be compensated for their sufferings. I mean that, perhaps, the treading down is itself a blessing or can become a blessing.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Sources: wikipedia.org, giffordlectures.org, debrarienstra.com, yale.edu

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