Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with His sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!

— Octavius Winslow (1808–1878), Prediger

Topics: Grief & Comfort, Grace & Redemption

Occasions: Comfort

Octavius Winslow

Octavius Winslow war ein englisch-US-amerikanischer Prediger und Autor des 19. Jahrhunderts, der als Geistlicher bei den Baptisten sowie später in der Church of England unter anderem in Bath und Brighton wirkte. Er steht für eine an den Puritanern orientierte, seelsorgerliche Frömmigkeit mit starkem Schwerpunkt auf dem Wirken des Heiligen Geistes und der Hinwendung zu Christus. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er durch Andachtsbücher und Schriften, die theologische Lehren mit persönlicher Glaubenserfahrung und Zuspruch verknüpfen.

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