Pain is your passport to growth!
— Rick Rigsby (b. 1956), Motivationsredner, Autor, ehem. Universitätsprofessor
Topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Growth & Character
Occasions: For Reflection
Rick Rigsby
Rick Rigsby (* 1956) ist ein US-amerikanischer Motivationsredner, Autor und ehemaliger Universitätsprofessor für Kommunikationswissenschaften. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch seinen Vortrag und das Buch „Lessons From a Third Grade Dropout“, in denen er Tugenden wie Integrität, Fleiß und Demut thematisiert. Für Bibelleser veranschaulicht sein Wirken, wie christliche Werte und biblische Charakterbildung praxisnah im alltäglichen Handeln verankert werden können.
All quotes by Rick Rigsby (12)
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