Voices and influences
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
The count who gave refugees his estate and got a hundred-year prayer meeting and the modern missions movement back.
Summary
This site quotes Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf 6 times across 6 books, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1700 to 1760, German (Saxon).
- Quoted here most in Psalms: 1 of 6.
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
- Lived
- 1700 to 1760
- Nation
- German (Saxon)
- Tradition
- Moravian
5 of 6 quotations
Own words
Quoted in full, because Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf died in 1760 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“If it were possible … that there should be another God than Christ I would rather be damned with Christ than happy with another.”
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Psalms 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You. BSB
“These are indeed and in Truth they which alone still pierce and wound the Hearts of all poor Sinners to this very Day, and these my Heart is captivated with too.”
Sixteen Discourses, preached at Berlin (London, 1740), page 111
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Isaiah 53:5 But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. BSB
“Jesus, still lead on, Till our rest be won! And although the way be cheerless, We will follow, calm and fearless; Guide us by Thy hand To our Fatherland.”
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Luke 5:11 And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him. BSB
“I have … but one passion—’tis He, ’tis only He.”
Undated in the archive this site cites.
Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. BSB
“I was … as certain that the Son of God was my Lord as of the existence of my five fingers.”
Undated in the archive this site cites.
2 Timothy 1:12 For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf 6 times across 6 books.
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The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
Count Zinzendorf was a Saxon nobleman raised in Pietism who let a band of persecuted Moravian refugees settle on his estate in 1722. The village they built, Herrnhut — 'the Lord's watch' — was quarrelsome until a communion service in August 1727 that the community ever after described as its Pentecost. Out of it came a prayer watch, men and women covering every hour, that by the Moravians' own records continued for around a hundred years. Out of the praying came the sending: within five years Herrnhut was dispatching missionaries to enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and to Greenland, decades before Carey. A Moravian meeting in London is where John Wesley's heart was 'strangely warmed.' Zinzendorf's motto held it all together: 'I have one passion — it is He, it is He alone.'
6 quotations across 6 books