Quotes by Paul Deitenbeck

Paul Deitenbeck (1907–1994) — Evangelist · Pietismus · Deutschland

Paul Deitenbeck (1912–2000) war ein deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Pfarrer und Evangelist, der von 1952 bis 1982 in Lüdenscheid wirkte und die westdeutsche pietistische Bewegung der Nachkriegszeit prägte. Bekannt wurde er als langjähriger Leiter der Deutschen Zeltmission, Mitinitiator der Bekenntnisbewegung „Kein anderes Evangelium“ sowie als streitbarer Verteidiger eines bibeltreuen Glaubens gegen historisch-kritische Theologiekonzepte. Heutigen Bibellesern vermitteln seine Texte eine volksnahe, seelsorgerliche Verkündigung, die zu praktischer Nachfolge und persönlichem Gottvertrauen ermutigt.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Prayer & Silence, Hope & Confidence, Suffering & the Question of God, Humility & Pride, Discipleship

Quotes by Paul Deitenbeck

We may come to him as we are. We will not stay with him as we are.

Paul Deitenbeck

Everything that happens to you must first pass by God.

Paul Deitenbeck

Father, I don't understand You. But I trust You!

Paul Deitenbeck

We have a great high priest for small flickers of faith with great weaknesses.

Paul Deitenbeck

In God's eyes you are worth so much that God does not want to live eternity without you.

Paul Deitenbeck

Prayer can change the situation or - if the situation remains - strengthen my shoulders to bear it through.

Paul Deitenbeck

How precious when a Christian has the grace of insignificance and can bear being second, without growing bitter in the shadow of the greater ones.

Paul Deitenbeck

We can never fall deeper than into the hands of Jesus.

Paul Deitenbeck

I may look forward to God's surprises of blessing, and even in the thicket of temptations reckon with his secret helping measures.

Paul Deitenbeck

God’s Son dies outside the gate, so that I may have citizenship forever inside the Father’s house.

Paul Deitenbeck

Jesus is here. Jesus is here for us. Jesus is here for us forever.

Paul Deitenbeck

To believe means: to know oneself carried through by eternal love.

Paul Deitenbeck

A Christian under attack stands far more under grace than a Christian who thinks nothing can shake him anymore.

Paul Deitenbeck

Even the smallest thing within the scope of my tasks is ennobled as worship, when we do it under the eyes of the Lord.

Paul Deitenbeck

Our faith lives from the surplus weight of Jesus's forgiveness.

Paul Deitenbeck

Within your own four walls you mustn't preach — there you must live.

Paul Deitenbeck

One must distinguish between the life of faith and the state of one's soul.

Paul Deitenbeck

If foresight doesn't help me, then often looking back does.

Paul Deitenbeck

There is not only intercession, there is also inter-believing — believing on behalf of another.

Paul Deitenbeck

God does not appear in the style of royal representation, but in the style of Bethlehem and Golgotha.

Paul Deitenbeck

Christians live at the expense of Jesus' grace and can therefore bear the cost of holding back.

Paul Deitenbeck

Jesus' resurrection means that someone has come who has turned the finale of death into a mere interim stage.

Paul Deitenbeck

When we are alone with God, all our pious phrases fall away.

Paul Deitenbeck

Christians, as salt of the earth, should not stay in the saltshaker, or else it leads to a Christian sulking-corner existence.

Paul Deitenbeck

The greatest service I can do on this earth is to let Jesus' service happen fully in me.

Paul Deitenbeck

For Jesus' sake we may make it easier for others to live, to believe, to love and to suffer.

Paul Deitenbeck

Our situation is God's business.

Paul Deitenbeck

The worry-factory of our heart can go bankrupt! When? When we manage to cast all our worries onto Jesus.

Paul Deitenbeck

People who reckon with Jesus always come into circumstances already prepared.

Paul Deitenbeck

Our life may have an inviting character, because the joy of those set free has entered our hearts.

Paul Deitenbeck

Jesus, the risen Lord, is a companion who bears and knows my ways of the cross.

Paul Deitenbeck

Young Christians must not be boxed in, but must be left to the creative power of the Holy Spirit.

Paul Deitenbeck

To pray means: to have secrets with God.

Paul Deitenbeck

Our predicaments are God's opportunities.

Paul Deitenbeck

When God lays a burden on us, he first makes our shoulders strong.

Paul Deitenbeck

God can, at the right hour, set a line of a hymn like a candle into the darkness of my heart.

Paul Deitenbeck

We are unaccusable for all eternity.

Paul Deitenbeck

Intercession is the most precious service I am allowed to do: by placing people under God's special attention.

Paul Deitenbeck

God builds his kingdom while dispensing with ideals.

Paul Deitenbeck

Every day we may face the practical tasks of life anew with a humanity given to us by Jesus.

Paul Deitenbeck

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Sources: ghv-luedenscheid.de, vbkg.org, nrw.de, bibelbund.de

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