Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German Lutheran theologian and pastor whose works concern Christianity in the modern world; an active opponent of Nazism, he was arrested and sent to Buchenwald and later executed (1906-1945)

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
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.
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.
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 his enemy.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

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