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

upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.”

“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.”

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”

“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind

ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”

.......

and you know.

this would have just as much heft of truth--

even if it wasn't written from a prison cell by a man who would be hanged with piano wire for speaking out against the Nazi Party.

/writes about Bonhoeffer instead of doing homework

“Principles are only tools in God’s hands, soon to be thrown away as unserviceable” (Ethics 1995, 71).

/floored by these levels of postmodern