Dietrich Bonhoeffer IPA:
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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
“We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
“It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.”
“To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ”
“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent”
“A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol”
“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”