Quotes by Roland Werner

Roland Werner (b. 1957) — Theologe, Sprachwissenschaftler, Autor und Bibelübersetzer · evangelisch / evangelikal · Deutschland

Roland Werner (* 1957) ist ein deutscher evangelikaler Theologe, Sprachwissenschaftler und Autor, der vor allem in Marburg sowie in Leitungsfunktionen bei Initiativen wie dem Christival und dem CVJM gewirkt hat. Er steht für eine intellektuell reflektierte und alltagsnahe Glaubensvermittlung, geriet jedoch 2008 im Vorfeld des Christivals wegen eines umstrittenen Seminarangebots zum Thema Homosexualität in bundesweite Kritik. Bibellesern ist er insbesondere durch seine moderne, sinnorientierte Bibelübersetzung „das buch.“ sowie praxisbezogene geistliche Veröffentlichungen bekannt.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Hope & Confidence, Suffering & the Question of God, Relationships & Family, Grace & Redemption, Courage & Strength, Freedom & Truth

Quotes by Roland Werner

Faith is being drawn into the wide, open space of God's possibilities.

Roland Werner

Our life, our struggling and failing, our hopes and disappointments, are enfolded in God's victory in Christ.

Roland Werner

Believing is not human strain. Believing means nestling into the hand of the almighty Father.

Roland Werner

Nothing has to stay as it is, because God’s Spirit is the greatest power in the world.

Roland Werner

They exist, the angels. And they are still on their way in the service of the one who sent them.

Roland Werner

In a society bent on avoiding suffering, this is a helpful measure: we don't have to seek out suffering, but we also don't have to avoid it at all costs.

Roland Werner

Springs of faith and hope well up where I experience and live out friendship.

Roland Werner

Perhaps we could live much more relaxed—and more fruitfully for the kingdom of God—if we learned more to live as friends.

Roland Werner

Every suffering, even the seemingly arbitrary and unnecessary, can become a source of deep affirmation and strength when it flows from being connected to Jesus.

Roland Werner

Whoever wants to have a great faith must first meet the great God.

Roland Werner

That is the greatest gift of the Holy Spirit: hope that changes our life.

Roland Werner

Even a tiny grain of faith, as small as a mustard seed, has tremendous potential in it.

Roland Werner

Faith is born through the encounter with the God who is there.

Roland Werner

Living in the truth means immersing ourselves more and more in the truth created by God and letting our lives be shaped by it.

Roland Werner

Sources: ead.de, wikipedia.org, spiegel.de, taz.de

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