Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.
— Spiros Zodhiates (1922–2009), Bibelgelehrter
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Time & Transience, Wisdom & Understanding
Occasions: For Reflection
All quotes by Spiros Zodhiates (3)
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