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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
«It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
alternatives, bring out, crucial
«If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
| Keywords:
board, boarding, Board of, corridor, corridors, train
«The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to h»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
abandon, enables, no-account, optimism, resigned, vitality
«The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
| Keywords:
comes out, correspondence, Correspondences, does not exist, The Mark, The Mark of
«Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.»
«Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
| About:
Gratitude
| Keywords:
gratitude, pang, pangs, tranquil
«It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
| About:
Excellence
| Keywords:
alternatives, characteristic, come to the fore, fore, issues, momentous