What you are when you are alone with God, that you are – and nothing more. You may make a great show of love and faith in church, singing like Pavarotti or attracting the masses to your profound Sunday school lectures. But if there is no private communion between you and Jesus – frequent and deep communion – then your religion is worthless.
— Kris Lundgaard, Christlicher Autor und Pastor
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Prayer & Silence, Discipleship
Occasions: For Reflection
Kris Lundgaard
Kris Lundgaard ist ein US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Pastor, Missionar und Autor, der in den USA und in der Slowakei tätig war. Er ist dafür bekannt, Schriften puritanischer Theologen wie John Owen über den inneren geistlichen Kampf und den Umgang mit Sünde in eine alltagsnahe Sprache zu übertragen. Bibellesern bieten seine Texte theologische Reflexionen über persönliche Heiligung, geistliche Wachsamkeit und die Ausrichtung auf Christus.
All quotes by Kris Lundgaard (8)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
There is a God, and I'm not him.
John Mark Comer
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson