Quotes by Walter Hümmer
Walter Hümmer (1909–1972) — Pfarrer, Gründer der Communität Christusbruderschaft Selbitz · evangelisch-lutherisch · Deutschland
Walter Hümmer (1909–1972) war ein deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Pfarrer und Mitglied der Bekennenden Kirche, der vor allem im oberfränkischen Selbitz wirkte. Zusammen mit seiner Ehefrau Hanna begründete er die Communität Christusbruderschaft Selbitz und wurde damit zu einem Pionier evangelischen Ordenslebens, das sich an verbindlicher Nachfolge, Gebet und diakonischer Gemeindearbeit orientierte. Für Bibelleser stehen seine Schriften für ein vertrauensvolles Festhalten an Gott in Krisen sowie für Impulse zu einer geistlichen Erneuerung aus geschwisterlicher Gemeinschaft.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Church & Congregation, Faith & Trust, Humility & Pride, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Growth & Character, Meaning & Identity, Hope & Confidence, Service & Love of Neighbour
Quotes by Walter Hümmer
If there is any progress in the life of faith, it can only be that we get up faster and faster each time we fall.
Walter Hümmer
The sand shall bloom! That is God's promise over all the deserts of your life.
Walter Hümmer
Faith is a shift of center of gravity into God.
Walter Hümmer
Jesus always did what is the highest nobility of man: serving. But Jesus says: Before I want your service, I want you to let yourselves be served by me!
Walter Hümmer
I only have authority when I am no longer conscious of it, otherwise vanity has me by the collar. As the powerless one I have Christ's power.
Walter Hümmer
Whoever receives themselves anew each day from the hand of God can also receive the neighbor anew each day from the hand of God.
Walter Hümmer
Escape the devilish snare of feeling inferior! Everyone is gifted - for all the diversity of gifts. The quantity differs, but not the quality.
Walter Hümmer
I don't believe in only ever registering the misery of church and world and noting the asthmatic life of our days. I suffer under this misery and try to contribute my centimeter of therapy.
Walter Hümmer
Difficulties like to hypnotize our soul. A new perspective can wipe away a mountain of worry in an instant. That is why Scripture so often says: Look! See!
Walter Hümmer
The person without Jesus becomes either a master or a herd animal.
Walter Hümmer
Serve the world with utmost devotion, but do not live from its strength!
Walter Hümmer
The kingdom of God cannot be built with theological quarrelsomeness.
Walter Hümmer
All fruit of the Spirit can become worm-eaten through our self-satisfaction.
Walter Hümmer
Whoever has support in the love of God, which reveals itself through the cross, through what was accomplished for us once and for all, does not flee when he sees resistance and looming disaster approaching. He is able to be still and to hope.
Walter Hümmer
Just as Jesus bowed down to us in our weakness, so are we, through the Holy Spirit, called to bow down to the weakness of others.
Walter Hümmer
Blessed are those who pray, for they take time for God. God's time works for them. Blessed are those who pray, for they experience God's acting and his mercy. God takes his place at their side.
Walter Hümmer
A true sacrifice is born of inner joy and freedom. The heart warmed by God gives itself away gladly.
Walter Hümmer
The Holy Spirit is the power of hope in our life. When circumstances weigh us down, he lifts us back onto our feet through new hope. He gives the power to love, to bear, and to decide.
Walter Hümmer
The denominations sense that they all live from the Gulf Stream of divine love. That brings an improvement in the climate between them.
Walter Hümmer
An intellectualization of faith usually leads to an immunization of the heart against the claim of the gospel.
Walter Hümmer
The people of God are the prism through which God's light wants to shine into this world. Let us not be restorers, but a vanguard of the coming Kingdom of God!
Walter Hümmer
Have no fear when day by day you lose yourself into God! God himself watches over that, in time and eternity.
Walter Hümmer
Where bitterness, grudge-holding, and unforgiveness take hold, the flow of life in the body of Christ is disrupted. Offended people radiate neither light nor joy nor strength. Jesus wants to make us people who let the sun of mercy rise daily for those around us.
Walter Hümmer
At Easter an explosion of divine life took place: not only was the stone rolled away from Christ's tomb, but also the stone over the grave of the world and the entire cosmos was blasted open.
Walter Hümmer
The lights of this world, worldviews and philosophies, are like rockets shot up for a brief moment into the night sky of human knowledge. They come back down again and go out.
Walter Hümmer
The church of God is the prism, the transparency, through which God's light wants to shine into this world.
Walter Hümmer
We — in the various confessions — can all sing only from the one sheet of music of Holy Scripture; nothing else lies before any of us. We are invited to spell out and sing again the praise of the triune God.
Walter Hümmer
Christians do not live in having-become, but in becoming, in a process of growth through word and spirit.
Walter Hümmer
There is no gift that does not contain a burden within it, and no burden that does not hide a gift within it. Even trials are a gift of God.
Walter Hümmer
Every test of our faith reveals what is ultimately in us. With every test, God wants to make us braver, more joyful, more eager to serve, and more devoted than before.
Walter Hümmer
Let your life be a prelude to eternity.
Walter Hümmer
Gratitude for one another is the uniting power in a community.
Walter Hümmer
A true personality dares to be an individual. It will not hide behind another's opinion, nor play people's opinions off against one another.
Walter Hümmer
To the extent that we make the concerns of God's kingdom our own, God makes our concerns his own.
Walter Hümmer
Through our prayer we may move the horizontal of human misery into the vertical of God.
Walter Hümmer
What of the mystery of divine calling? Does not every Christian's life include being unrecognized? In this respect, our existence as Christians and the existence of the church as a whole is akin to the fate of the prophets. (Jer. 1, 18-19)
Walter Hümmer
One can only grasp and accept the mercy of God once one has let oneself be condemned.
Walter Hümmer
God resolves much for us once we have first suffered through it.
Walter Hümmer
The church of the future will take the side of the oppressed and denounce unjust conditions. In doing so, it will lose the favor of the powerful and be oppressed. That is its way of the cross. It will advocate nonviolent resistance, live and represent the gospel of love, and not shy away from the path of suffering.
Walter Hümmer
From conversation with God, joy and hope keep growing anew in the 'nevertheless' of faith. A hopeless, resigned church is a contradiction in itself. That the mainstream church is on a downward path today need not discourage us. On the contrary! This decline urges us to rely anew on Jesus Christ.
Walter Hümmer
Sources: verlag-christusbruderschaft.de, hdbg.eu, christusbruderschaft.de, jesus.de
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