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"Silence in the face of evil is evil itself."

"Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer 💎 #Botd 1906

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential. Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, ...

including vocal opposition to Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. Bonhoeffer was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel prison for one and a half years. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp. ...

After being accused of being associated with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler, Bonhoeffer was quickly tried, along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr, and then hanged on 9 April 1945 as the Nazi regime was collapsing.

"If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. ...

Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong."

"The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross..."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts..."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sculpture by Edith Breckwoldt, The ordeal.

“No man in the whole world can change the truth. One can only look for the truth, find it and serve it. The truth is in all places.”
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Flossenbürg concentration camp, Arrestblock-Hof: Memorial to members of German resistance executed on 9 April 1945

Gallery of 20th Century Martyrs at Westminster Abbey. From left, Mother Elizabeth of Russia, Martin Luther King Jr., Óscar Romero and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer,who lived as he preached exerted great influence and inspiration for among other Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in the US,the anti-communist democratic movement in Eastern Europe during the Cold War,and the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa.