Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."	Reading, Responsibility
"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction."	Miscellaneous
"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure."	Evil, Happiness, Joy
"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."	Character, Decision-Making, Excellence
"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."	Age, Decision-Making, Nature
"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."	Ability, Age, Hope
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."	Miscellaneous
"Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering."	Creativity, Experience, Happiness
"To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ."	Age, Religion

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