When we focus on what we can accomplish rather than the people we are called to serve, we become victims of our own ambition, and so do they.
— Jon Tyson (b. 1977), Pastor und Autor
Source: The Burden Is Light: Liberating Your Life from the Tyranny of Performance and Success (über goodreads, Wortlaut nicht gegengeprüft)
Topics: Service & Love of Neighbour, Work & Vocation, Humility & Pride
Occasions: For Reflection
Jon Tyson
Jon Tyson (* 1977) ist ein gebürtiger australischer Pastor und Autor, der die evangelikale Gemeinde Church of the City New York in Manhattan leitet. Bekannt ist er für seine Bücher und Predigten über geistliche Erneuerung, Jüngerschaft und das Leben als christliche Minderheit in säkularen Metropolen. Bibellesern vermittelt er praxisnahe Impulse für ein verbindliches Glaubensleben in der Gegenwart, während seine traditionell-konservativen ethischen Positionen in säkularen Kontexten auch auf Kritik stoßen.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Prayer does not equip us for greater works – prayer is the greater work.
Oswald Chambers
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
There are two ways to do good: to give and to forgive.
Augustine of Hippo
The world consists of nothing but opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard
We cannot do great things on this earth, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
Etty Hillesum