Television encourages passivity and diminishes creativity. And it disrupts natural family life. Worst of all, it induces what has been called ‘the television trance.’ It has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and unreal for steady viewers, but by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events.
— Derick Bingham (1946–2010), Lehrpastor, Autor, Rundfunksprecher
Topics: Ethical Questions, Time & Transience, Relationships & Family
Occasions: For Reflection
Derick Bingham
Derick Bingham (1946–2010) war ein nordirischer Lehrpastor, Autor und Literaturdozent aus der Tradition der evangelikalen Brüderbewegung. Bekannt wurde er während des Nordirlandkonflikts durch seine überkonfessionelle wöchentliche Bibelklasse in Belfast sowie durch Rundfunkbeiträge und Biografien über christliche Persönlichkeiten. Für heutige Bibelleser stehen seine Schriften für eine literarisch geprägte Schriftauslegung, die seelsorgerliche Ermutigung und den biblischen Umgang mit Leid in den Mittelpunkt stellt.
All quotes by Derick Bingham (8)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God.
C.S. Lewis
The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Mother Teresa
My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There are no ordinary people; every neighbor carries eternal significance.
C.S. Lewis
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Desmond Tutu