Gerhard Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

A comprehended God is no God at all! — Gerhard

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

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

Christian growth is forgetting about yourself. — Gerhard

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

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our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.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