Perhaps no grace is less prayed for, or less cultivated than gentleness. Indeed it is considered rather as belonging to natural disposition or external manners, than as a Christian virtue; and seldom do we reflect that not to be gentle is sin.
— George Bethune (1805–1862), Pastor, Prediger, Kirchenlieddichter und theologischer Schriftsteller
Topics: Growth & Character, Ethical Questions
Occasions: For Reflection
George Bethune
George Washington Bethune war ein US-amerikanischer reformierter Pastor, Kanzelredner und Lieddichter des 19. Jahrhunderts, der Gemeinden in Philadelphia und Brooklyn leitete. Bekannt für seine rhetorische Begabung, verfasste er Kirchenlieder sowie Auslegungen zum Heidelberger Katechismus und engagierte sich in der American Colonization Society. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er durch Andachtstexte und Hymnen, die eine bildhafte, christuszentrierte Frömmigkeit der reformierten Tradition vermitteln.
All quotes by George Bethune (3)
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Oswald Chambers
Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.
Craig Groeschel
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Tim Keller
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson
Being a Christian is not a 'do-it-yourself' affair.
Jerry Bridges
Christ accepts us as we are, but he does not leave us as we are.
Ingrid Trobisch
John Newton
Charles Haddon Spurgeon