Because in the silence of the temple garden the spring water falls from the mouth of a bronze dragon into a stone basin, time exists.

— Manfred Hausmann (1898–1986), Schriftsteller

Source: Eine Brunneninschrift im Münchner Tierpark Hellabrunn; darunter ist sein Pseudonym "Toyotama Tsuno" zu lesen.

Topics: Time & Transience, Peace & Rest, Wisdom & Understanding

Manfred Hausmann

Manfred Hausmann war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Journalist und evangelischer Laienprediger des 20. Jahrhunderts, der vor allem in Worpswede und Bremen lebte und wirkte. Neben Naturlyrik und Romanen prägten existentielle theologische Essays sein Werk, während seine publizistische Tätigkeit im Nationalsozialismus Gegenstand historischer Kritik an seiner Mitläuferrolle ist. Für Bibelleser heute formulieren seine Texte und Predigten theologische Grundthemen wie Schuld, Umkehr und göttliche Gnade in einer bildhaften, poetischen Sprache.

All quotes by Manfred Hausmann (6)

More on this topic

Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel

My past no longer concerns me. It belongs to God's mercy. My future does not yet concern me. It belongs to divine providence. What concerns me, and what claims me, is today - it belongs to God's grace and to the surrender of my heart, my good will.
Francis de Sales

This is the end – for me the beginning of life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot

The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals; and our Holy of Holies is a shrine that neither the Romans nor the Germans were able to burn.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

All quotes · lumen.bible