„The life-giving Spirit is the very one who slays you; the first thing the life-giving Spirit says is that you must enter into death, that you must die to – it is this way in order that you many not take Christianity in vain. A life-giving Spirit – that is the invitation; who would not willingly take hold of it! But die first – that is the halt!“
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), It Is the Spirit Who Gives Life
Søren Kierkegaard39
dänischer Philosoph, Essayist, Theologe und religiöser Schr… 1813 - 1855Ähnliche Zitate
„If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.“
— Laozi semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and founder of… -604
— Alice Borchardt American fiction writer 1939 - 2007
Quelle: The Raven Warrior
— Dwight D. Eisenhower American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961) 1890 - 1969
— Dada Vaswani Spiritual leader 1918 - 2018
Quelle: http://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/hinduism/2005/06/the-world-needs-love.aspx
„First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.“
— Chuck Palahniuk American novelist, essayist 1962
— Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935
Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face
Kontext: When you look straight on, you end by seeing the immense event — death. There is only one thing which really gives the meaning of our whole life, and that is our death. In that terrible light may they judge their hearts who will one day die. Well I know that Marie's death would be the same thing in my heart as my own, and it seems to me also that only within her of all the world does my own likeness wholly live. We are not afraid of the too great sincerity which goes the length of these things; and we talk about them, beside the bed which awaits the inevitable hour when we shall not awake in it again. We say: —
"There'll be a day when I shall begin something that I shan't finish — a walk, or a letter, or a sentence, or a dream.".
— Ephrem the Syrian Syriac deacon and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century 306 - 373
"Prayer of Ephrem" as translated in The Lenten Triodion (1978) by Mother Mary and Archimandrite Kallistos Ware, p. 69
Variant translations:
O Lord and Master of my life, give me not a spirit of sloth, vain curiosity, lust for power and idle talk, but give to me, your servant, a spirit of soberness, humility, patience and love. O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not to condemn my brother: for you are blessed for ever and ever. Amen. O God, cleanse me, a sinner.
As translated in Who's Holding the Umbrella (1984) by William E. Yaeger, p. 70
Kontext: O Lord and Master of my life, give me not a spirit of sloth, vain curiosity, lust for power and idle talk, but give to me, Thy servant, a spirit of soberness, humility, patience and love. O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not to condemn my brother: for blessed art Thou to the ages of ages. Amen. O God, cleanse me, a sinner.
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
March 6, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works 1892 - 1973
— Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
„In order to write about life first you must live it.“
— Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961
— José Rizal Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist 1861 - 1896
"Mi Ultimo Adios", st. 5
„The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.“
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), VIII Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting
