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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes: Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
         

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.


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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.



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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.



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