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Top 15 Helmut Thielicke Quotes (2025 Update)

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “The Gospel must be repeatedly forwarded to a new address because the recipient is repeatedly changing places of residence.”

1. “The Gospel must be repeatedly forwarded to a new address because the recipient is repeatedly changing places of residence.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic ‘you ought,’ but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the ‘You may.’”

2. “The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic ‘you ought,’ but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the ‘You may.’”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.”

3. “What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.”

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Helmut Thielicke Quote: “The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to each generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of address.”

4. “The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to each generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of address.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen and I will tell you how much you have loved them.”

5. “Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen and I will tell you how much you have loved them.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.”

6. “A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.”

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Helmut Thielicke Quote: “When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.”

7. “When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.”

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Helmut Thielicke Quote: “A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.”

8. “A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn that their Lord is stronger than any doubt and any hell of despair.”

9. “The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn that their Lord is stronger than any doubt and any hell of despair.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.”

10. “Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him.”

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Helmut Thielicke Quote: “We can praise a man only when we have seen what he accomplishes. But we must praise God in order to see what he accomplishes. And therefore we should praise him at the very moments in life when there seems to be no way out. Then we shall learn to see the way out for our own lives, simply because God is there at the end of every way and every blind alley.”

11. “We can praise a man only when we have seen what he accomplishes. But we must praise God in order to see what he accomplishes. And therefore we should praise him at the very moments in life when there seems to be no way out. Then we shall learn to see the way out for our own lives, simply because God is there at the end of every way and every blind alley.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “But God’s Word, the Word that says he is our Father, the Word that has been calling out to us men from the first day of creation: “You are mine!” – this Word endures through all the eclipses of history, it sounds above the hoofbeats of the apocalyptic horsemen, and it will still be the saving Word on God’s great last day of reckoning when the Judge will come to us and, suddenly, he will turn out to be our Father.”

12. “But God’s Word, the Word that says he is our Father, the Word that has been calling out to us men from the first day of creation: “You are mine!” – this Word endures through all the eclipses of history, it sounds above the hoofbeats of the apocalyptic horsemen, and it will still be the saving Word on God’s great last day of reckoning when the Judge will come to us and, suddenly, he will turn out to be our Father.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “If there are any among us who are at their wit’s end, they ought to try for once to put aside all their grievances and perhaps even all their petitions and simply praise God, in order to turn their hearts to the end of the ways of God, where the eternal liturgy resounds in heaven. Nothing so changes us – precisely in the darkest moments of life – as the praise of God.”

13. “If there are any among us who are at their wit’s end, they ought to try for once to put aside all their grievances and perhaps even all their petitions and simply praise God, in order to turn their hearts to the end of the ways of God, where the eternal liturgy resounds in heaven. Nothing so changes us – precisely in the darkest moments of life – as the praise of God.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “So this is the law that always operates in the life of the Christian man: The longer he lives in Christ’s discipleship the greater grows his poverty and indebtedness. But the riches and abundance of his Lord also grow greater and greater and make up for all he lacks. He must decrease, but his Lord must increase. And this he does far more abundantly than all that we ask or think.”

14. “So this is the law that always operates in the life of the Christian man: The longer he lives in Christ’s discipleship the greater grows his poverty and indebtedness. But the riches and abundance of his Lord also grow greater and greater and make up for all he lacks. He must decrease, but his Lord must increase. And this he does far more abundantly than all that we ask or think.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “My plea is simply this: every theological idea which makes an impression upon you must be regarded as a challenge to your faith. Do not assume as a matter of course that you believe whatever impresses you theologically and enlightens you intellectually. Otherwise suddenly you are believing no longer in Jesus Christ, but in Luther, or in one of your other theological teachers.”

15. “My plea is simply this: every theological idea which makes an impression upon you must be regarded as a challenge to your faith. Do not assume as a matter of course that you believe whatever impresses you theologically and enlightens you intellectually. Otherwise suddenly you are believing no longer in Jesus Christ, but in Luther, or in one of your other theological teachers.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “Here truth is employed as a means to personal triumph and at the same time as a means to kill. It produces a few years later that sort of minister who operates not to instruct but to destroy his church. And if the elders, the church, and the young people begin to groan, if they protest to the church authorities, and finally stay away from worship, this young man is still Pharisaical enough not to listen one bit.”

16. “Here truth is employed as a means to personal triumph and at the same time as a means to kill. It produces a few years later that sort of minister who operates not to instruct but to destroy his church. And if the elders, the church, and the young people begin to groan, if they protest to the church authorities, and finally stay away from worship, this young man is still Pharisaical enough not to listen one bit.”

— Helmut Thielicke

Helmut Thielicke Quote: “And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind of shock therapy – only it was never ‘therapy.’ They have smothered the first little flame of a man’s own spiritual life and a first shy question with the fire extinguisher of their erudition. By such performances a person can really be smothered and strangled!”

17. “And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind of shock therapy – only it was never ‘therapy.’ They have smothered the first little flame of a man’s own spiritual life and a first shy question with the fire extinguisher of their erudition. By such performances a person can really be smothered and strangled!”

— Helmut Thielicke

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