Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-1945)

German Lutheran Pastor
Participated in German Resistance movement against Nazism

birthdate: February 4
birthplace: Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland)

QUOTES

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.”

the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”

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.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

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.

 

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