Quotes by Peter Strauch
Peter Strauch (b. 1943) — freikirchlicher Pastor, Liedermacher, Buchautor, ehemaliger Präses des Bundes Freier evangelischer Gemeinden · evangelisch-freikirchlich · Deutschland
Peter Strauch (* 1943) ist ein deutscher evangelisch-freikirchlicher Theologe, Liedermacher und Autor, der langjährig als Präses des Bundes Freier evangelischer Gemeinden und als Vorsitzender der Deutschen Evangelischen Allianz wirkte. Bekannt ist er vor allem durch zahlreiche Neue Geistliche Lieder wie „Meine Zeit steht in deinen Händen“ sowie durch praxisnahe theologische Veröffentlichungen. Für Bibelleser steht sein Werk für eine seelsorglich geprägte, alltagsnahe Frömmigkeit, die Themen wie Nachfolge, Schwachheit und Vertrauen auf Gottes Führung betont.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Guilt & Forgiveness, Meaning & Identity, Hope & Confidence, Prayer & Silence, Peace & Rest
Quotes by Peter Strauch
God will never come back to forgiven guilt again — it is settled once and for all.
Peter Strauch
Lord, we ask, come and bless us; lay your peace upon us. Hold your blessing hands over us. Touch us with your power.
Peter Strauch
Jesus was certainly able to walk on water, yet mostly he used the boat.
Peter Strauch
Give me a wide view - but keep me from overlooking my neighbor.
Peter Strauch
If I stood once again at the beginning of my life, I would start again with Jesus.
Peter Strauch
I began to grow calm at the thought that I was not responsible for my future, but Christ was.
Peter Strauch
Boundless joy, undeserved happiness. Life without end, God gives it back to us. He who created us takes us back. Everyone is invited. Come, whoever can come.
Peter Strauch
The greater our dependence on the living God, the greater our independence from people.
Peter Strauch
The awareness of my own powerlessness was the decisive condition for the unfolding of his power.
Peter Strauch
As important as human repentance is, it can never be the foundation of our faith. God has always loved us first.
Peter Strauch
God the Father strains his eyes looking for his sons and daughters. He has no greater wish than that they come home.
Peter Strauch
We may build a career and do a thousand pleasant things, but deep inside us remains a longing that nothing in the world can satisfy.
Peter Strauch
Whether we are happy or downcast, in lively company or all alone: Jesus is with us, and he is closer to us than we think.
Peter Strauch
We don't need to make ourselves valuable and fight for recognition. We are valuable because God loves us.
Peter Strauch
What matters is not the depth or completeness of our conversion, but that God has accepted us and we are his own.
Peter Strauch
Jesus, we look to you. Your love wants to change us, and your glory is mirrored in us. Jesus, we look to you.
Peter Strauch
Our strength grows from stillness, from stillness before God. The storm within us passes, the waves settle. We become quiet before God.
Peter Strauch
Now the night has driven away the day. Father in heaven, stay with me. Then I will lie down and sleep in peace. You will keep me. I thank you.
Peter Strauch
We need room for unusual people and ideas. Even mistakes must be allowed, otherwise there will be no change.
Peter Strauch
I don't have to master my life with God's help — he masters it, when I trust him and remain in him. That is faith.
Peter Strauch
Still darkness hides the light, and still we do not see heaven. But the time of pain will pass, and then we will see the Father.
Peter Strauch
Jesus is waiting for us to admit our helplessness to him.
Peter Strauch
To look to Jesus means: I do not rely on my own strength, I rely on him.
Peter Strauch
We need neither strain our imagination nor cross light-years to encounter the world of God - he and his angels surround us on all sides.
Peter Strauch
Whoever keeps God's new world in view can face the problems of the old world more freely.
Peter Strauch
Whoever accepts God's grace in faith and entrusts themselves to God's Son receives life they never had before, not even close.
Peter Strauch
The world is no longer forsaken by God. The Savior is here.
Peter Strauch
Because Christ is peace, the way to God is open, and not only for a pious elite, but for every person.
Peter Strauch
As long as a person comes to Jesus and asks for forgiveness of their guilt, he will not turn them away.
Peter Strauch
Many tears will still be shed, and man is still man’s enemy. But because Jesus died for his enemies, we hope, because he gave us hope.
Peter Strauch
What is proven is not always what is right. Often God demands steps of faith that find their support not in our experience, but solely in trust.
Peter Strauch
Despite all spiritual growth, we remain dependent on forgiveness our whole life long. That will only change in God's new world.
Peter Strauch
God loves us, and that is why he waits for us to tell him what we lack.
Peter Strauch
Whoever confesses to God his inner poverty and coldness of heart can be helped. God himself will help him.
Peter Strauch
Forgiveness opens a clear view to God.
Peter Strauch
Admitting my blindness and asking for open eyes was a first and important step in God's therapy in my life.
Peter Strauch
Jesus Christ wants more than first place. He is not only number one, he wants to be all in all.
Peter Strauch
A Christian is not a Christian because he follows a Christian program. He is a Christian because he has died and been raised with Christ.
Peter Strauch
Whoever gives themselves into God's hands is completely secure. They can afford to be genuine.
Peter Strauch
God's goal for us is not some exclusive, pious idyll, but a fulfilled life in his love that also benefits my fellow human beings.
Peter Strauch
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