One of the ways we learn is by imitation. But while imitating others make sure you don't lose your uniqueness or your identity. Your uniqueness is your SOUND. Your VOICE. And your SIGNATURE. No one wants to listen to a cheap copy of someone else.
— Nathaniel Bassey (b. 1981), Gospelsänger, Trompeter, Songwriter und Pastor
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Wisdom & Understanding
Occasions: Encouragement
Nathaniel Bassey
Nathaniel Bassey (* 1981) ist ein nigerianischer Gospelsänger, Trompeter und pfingstlicher Pastor in Lagos. Bekannt wurde er international durch einflussreiche Lobpreislieder sowie als Initiator der virtuellen Gebets- und Anbetungsinitiative „Hallelujah Challenge“. Bibellesern begegnet er als prägende Stimme moderner afrikanischer Lobpreiskultur, deren Schwerpunkt auf geistliche Durchbrüche vereinzelt auch Kritik an einer möglichen Instrumentalisierung des Gebets hervorrief.
All quotes by Nathaniel Bassey (4)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
There is a God, and I'm not him.
John Mark Comer
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson