If, through a person, a little more love and kindness, a little more light and truth came into the world, then that person's life has had meaning.
— Alfred Delp (1907–1945), Jesuit/Widerstandskämpfer
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Love
Occasions: Farewell & Funeral
Alfred Delp
Alfred Delp (1907–1945) war ein deutscher Jesuit, katholischer Priester und Publizist, der in München wirkte. Er gehörte zum Kreisauer Kreis im Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus und verband theologische Zeitkritik mit Entwürfen für eine christlich-soziale Gesellschaftsordnung nach dem Regime. Für Bibelleser bezeugen seine in der Haft entstandenen Schriften eine existenzielle Reflexion über Gebet, Hoffnung und Nachfolge im Angesicht des Todes.
All quotes by Alfred Delp (18)
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