I long for delirium. There is a deep longing that absolutely corresponds to my nature and to which I have not yet yielded. I would like to be dead drunk for three months. And then simply explode.
— Beat Rink (b. 1957), Pfarrer, Gründer der Künstlerinitiative Crescendo, Künstlerseelsorger und Autor
Source: Gérard Depardieu, Interview mit der ZEIT Nr. 2/2007 vom 11. Januar 2007
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Temptation & Struggle, Suffering & the Question of God
Occasions: For Reflection
Beat Rink
Beat Rink (* 1957) ist ein Schweizer evangelisch-reformierter Pfarrer, Künstlerseelsorger und Autor aus Basel. Er gründete 1985 das internationale Kulturschaffenden- und Musikernetzwerk „Crescendo“ und setzt sich seither für die Verbindung von christlichem Glauben, Theologie und zeitgenössischer Kunst ein. Bibellesenden begegnet er vor allem durch sprachlich geschliffene Aphorismen und geistliche Kurzbetrachtungen, die theologische Themen in poetischer Form reflektieren.
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