Quotes by Wilhelm Busch

Wilhelm Busch (1897–1966) — Evangelist · Evangelikal · Deutschland

Wilhelm Busch war ein deutscher evangelisch-lutherischer Pfarrer und Jugendevangelist, der von 1929 bis 1962 das Weigle-Haus in Essen leitete und nach 1945 als Reiseprediger wirkte. Er stand für eine betont volksnahe, bibeltreue Verkündigung, engagierte sich in der Bekennenden Kirche gegen den Nationalsozialismus und erreichte mit Vortragssammlungen wie „Jesus unser Schicksal“ ein Millionenpublikum. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet er plastische und pointierte Erklärungen grundlegender Glaubensthemen, fordert aber durch seinen kompromisslosen Bekehrungsanspruch und die schroffe Ablehnung historisch-kritischer Schriftauslegung heraus.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: The Bible & the Word of God, Grace & Redemption, Wisdom & Understanding, Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Doubt & Hard Questions, Prayer & Silence, Church & Congregation

Quotes by Wilhelm Busch

What makes us Christians glad is not our deeds, but God's deeds.
Wilhelm Busch

Gossiping is confessing other people's sins.
Wilhelm Busch

The sum of our life is the hours in which we loved.
Wilhelm Busch

Some people think conversion is like crawling from a bright life into a dark cellar. It's the opposite! Whoever turns to Jesus comes out of the dark cellar into bright sunshine. A conversion is a step into the light.
Wilhelm Busch

Some would rather drown than call for help.
Wilhelm Busch

Make sure you always have people who pray for you.
Wilhelm Busch

The real kingdom-of-God events start small and quietly. But then they grow.
Wilhelm Busch

Our heavenly Father does not need our prayer. But we need to pray, in all the problems, troubles, and guilt of our life.
Wilhelm Busch

It belongs to my faith that my heavenly Father does not entrust me with tasks I cannot fulfill.
Wilhelm Busch

Whoever does not trust the Word should stop preaching, for: God's Word will accomplish it.
Wilhelm Busch

Happiness often arises from attentiveness to small things, unhappiness often from neglecting small things.
Wilhelm Busch

God pulls with one hand, the devil with both legs.
Wilhelm Busch

When you receive Jesus, you get a new existence. Becoming a child of God does not mean a change of thinking, but an entirely new existence.
Wilhelm Busch

The right to pray is a wonderful gift of God to us.
Wilhelm Busch

I know no other revelation of God than the one in Jesus, crucified for us.
Wilhelm Busch

The gospel of the Redeemer and Savior of sinners has great power over hearts!
Wilhelm Busch

But the riches of the Old Testament open up wonderfully to the one who understands that here the Father of Jesus Christ deals with his own in judgment and grace.
Wilhelm Busch

Tolerance is good. But not toward the intolerant.
Wilhelm Busch

Abstinence is the pleasure derived from things we cannot have.
Wilhelm Busch

It doesn't matter that they have some kind of faith; what matters is that they have the right faith.
Wilhelm Busch

Faith rests on causes, not on reasons.
Wilhelm Busch

I am certain that the Protestant church stands and falls with its preaching.
Wilhelm Busch

How many people have failed because they followed their own will and did not ask about God's guidance!
Wilhelm Busch

If our congregations are to come to a living relationship with the Old Testament again, we must begin to pave the way to the Old Testament for them through a proper interpretation.
Wilhelm Busch

God does not want arrogant discussion, but childlike obedience.
Wilhelm Busch

Whoever consults reason in matters of faith gets unchristian answers.
Wilhelm Busch

The greatest problem of our life is our guilt before God!
Wilhelm Busch

That's how we humans are. We sing and pray in perfect comfort. But once something goes wrong, it shows how pitifully little trust in God we have.
Wilhelm Busch

My friends, deep down we all believe that God exists.
Wilhelm Busch

Rational religion is the mortal enemy of the biblical gospel.
Wilhelm Busch

Monastic life is not an evangelical, biblical ideal.
Wilhelm Busch

Sources: wikipedia.org, lvr.de, sermon-online.com, wordpress.com

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