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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Fanatics think that their single-​minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; they exhaust themselves and are beaten. They get entangled in non-​essentials and fall into the trap set by cleverer people.”


Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), p. 4.

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