This one is so simple that we miss it. Why aren’t we more grateful? There are many answers to that question, but this one is central: we aren’t grateful because we’ve never asked God to give us a grateful heart. By nature we are covetous, greedy, grasping and unhappy. Left to ourselves, we will be just like that rich fool. Generosity isn’t our natural impulse. We aren’t born giving; we’re born getting. Gratitude is not the inborn language of the heart.
— Ray Pritchard (b. 1952), Pastor, Buchautor und Konferenzsprecher
Topics: Joy & Gratitude, Prayer & Silence, Humility & Pride
Occasions: For Reflection
Ray Pritchard
Ray Pritchard (* 1952) ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Pastor, Buchautor und Leiter des Dienstes Keep Believing Ministries, der unter anderem langjährig die Calvary Memorial Church in Illinois führte. Er steht für eine praxisnahe, konservativ-evangelikale Auslegung der Bibel und Schriften über Vergebung, Heilsgewissheit sowie das Vertrauen auf Gottes Souveränität. Bibellesern bieten seine Bücher und Andachten leicht verständliche theologische Impulse zur konkreten Anwendung biblischer Texte im Alltag.
All quotes by Ray Pritchard (8)
When you see a child, you catch God in the act.
Martin Luther
Gertrud von le Fort
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paul Gerhardt
Augustine of Hippo
For all that has been - Thanks. For all that will be - Yes.
Dag Hammarskjöld
The world is more than its burden, and life is more than the sum of its gray days.
Alfred Delp
Frederick Buechner