Life often needs the deepest distress and mortal danger, it often needs a very deep well, before we truly see the stars—the heavenly truths! That is often the purpose of deep wells and other afflictions: the deeper the well, the brighter God's stars shine in the sky!
— Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915–1995), Apologet und Naturwissenschaftler
Topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Hope & Confidence
Occasions: For Reflection
Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith
Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915–1995) war ein britischer Chemiker, Pharmakologe und evangelikaler Apologet, der nach internationalen Lehraufträgen viele Jahre in der Schweiz lebte und publizierte. Er vertrat einen kreationistischen Ansatz und argumentierte mit biochemischen sowie informationstheoretischen Modellen gegen die Evolutionstheorie, was in der naturwissenschaftlichen Fachwelt auf breite Ablehnung stieß. Für Bibelleser veranschaulicht sein Werk den Versuch konservativ-evangelikaler Apologetik, naturwissenschaftliche Argumente mit einem wörtlichen Verständnis der biblischen Schöpfungsberichte zu verbinden.
All quotes by Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (39)
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
C.S. Lewis
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
Henri Nouwen
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Etty Hillesum
God writes straight even on crooked lines.
Paul Claudel
God lets us walk no path that he himself has not walked, and on which he does not go ahead of us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer