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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with D >> Quotes By Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| Quote #1: | "If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure." |
| Quote #2: | "Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering." |
| Quote #3: | "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." |
| Quote #4: | "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." |
| Quote #5: | "To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ." |
| Quote #6: | "If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." |
| Quote #7: | "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." |
| Quote #8: | "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." |
| Quote #9: | "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." |
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