Gerhard Quotes

• You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and
  knowledge.
  There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

  Gerhard

  Culture, Purpose, Sake

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• We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer is shocking: ‘Nothing! Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son! Listen and believe!’

  Gerhard

  Believe, Son, Age

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• The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

  Gerhard

  Jesus, Way, Christ

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• Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.

  Gerhard

  Christian, Growth, Forget

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• A comprehended God is no God at all!

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• We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.

  Gerhard

  Life, Home, Men

  "Meditations", XXXVIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 440-455), 1922.

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• A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who ‘looks on all things through suffering and the cross’ is constrained to speak the truth…it will see precisely that the cross and the resurrection itself is the only answer to that problem, not erasure or neglect.

  Gerhard

  Suffering, Looks, Answers

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• A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

  Gerhard

  Common, Currency, Duty

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• What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.

  Gerhard

  Together, Different, Elements

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• If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.

  Gerhard

  Assumption, Bondage, Preoccupation

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• I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

  Gerhard

  Art, Perfect, Important

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• ...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

  Gerhard

  Blessed, Compassion, Hell

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