Why drag hate into the new year when love is waiting for you to show up without baggage!
— John R. Bryant (b. 1943), Bischof der African Methodist Episcopal Church, Prediger
Topics: Love, Guilt & Forgiveness, Time & Transience
Occasions: New Year & New Beginnings, For Reflection
John R. Bryant
John Richard Bryant ist ein US-amerikanischer Theologe und emeritierter Bischof der African Methodist Episcopal Church. Sein Wirken zeichnet sich durch die Verbindung von afroamerikanischer Befreiungstheologie, sozialem Engagement und Impulsen charismatischer Frömmigkeit aus. Für Bibelleser steht er für eine Verkündigung, die biblische Hoffnungsmotive eng an gesellschaftliche Verantwortung und geistliche Erneuerung bindet.
All quotes by John R. Bryant (4)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A drop of love is worth more than an ocean of reason.
Blaise Pascal
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard