Quotes by Reinhold Schneider

Reinhold Schneider (1903–1958) — Schriftsteller · Katholisch · Deutschland

Reinhold Schneider (1903–1958) war ein deutscher katholischer Schriftsteller und Essayist, der vor allem in Freiburg im Breisgau lebte und wirkte. Bekannt als literarische Stimme des christlichen Widerstands gegen den Nationalsozialismus, geriet er in den 1950er-Jahren wegen seines strikten Pazifismus und der Ablehnung der Wiederbewaffnung in Konflikt mit Politik und katholischer Kirche. Für Bibelleser stehen seine Texte für eine von Kreuzestheologie geprägte Treue zum Gewissen sowie das Ringen um christliche Verantwortung in gesellschaftlichen Krisen.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Justice & Commitment, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Ethical Questions, Church & Congregation, Peace & Rest, Faith & Trust, Prayer & Silence, Guilt & Forgiveness

Quotes by Reinhold Schneider

I believe one understands a church only when one kneels in it.

Reinhold Schneider

It is quite certain that everything will end in joy.

Reinhold Schneider

Being able to let go is grace. An additional gift is serenity.

Reinhold Schneider

Only those who pray can still succeed in holding back the sword above our heads and wresting this world from the powers of judgment through a sanctified life.

Reinhold Schneider

Nothing reduces the power of temptation so much as an open confession before God and another Christian.

Reinhold Schneider

Silence nourishes, noise consumes.

Reinhold Schneider

Mary's answer, the handmaid of the Lord, is the most decision-laden word in history.

Reinhold Schneider

If we dare to come before God's face many times a day, our life must change.

Reinhold Schneider

Grace can come from all guilt. Perhaps that is why there is so much guilt in the world.

Reinhold Schneider

Christ can be present in the holy mystery of hiddenness - and the devil can hide beneath sanctified signs.

Reinhold Schneider

There is no Christianity of violence; that is a contradiction in itself.

Reinhold Schneider

A state without God is, at best, a well-organized band of robbers.

Reinhold Schneider

You cannot read the Bible, you can only do it. It is not a book, it is a life-force. And it is impossible to grasp even one line without the resolve to also carry it out.

Reinhold Schneider

God does not contradict himself. Not because in him the contradictions coincide.

Reinhold Schneider

All Christian ethics goes back to a single demand: the doing of the truth.

Reinhold Schneider

One Christmas Eve in Potsdam I opened the Holy Scripture and fled after a few chapters onto the cold dark street. For it was clear: under this claim of truth, life turns itself around. This book is no book, but a life-power. And it is impossible to grasp even a single line without the resolve to carry it out. For herein lies the hardest impossibility of human understanding: that only the one who believes understands faith.

Reinhold Schneider

Sources: wikipedia.org, gdw-berlin.de, corrigenda.online

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