Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Do you want to be delivered? That is the one great question Advent puts to us. Does even a vestige of longing burn in us? If not, what do we want from Advent, what do we want from Christmas?” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer IPA: (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plots planned by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Bonhoeffer was arrested in March 1943, imprisoned, and eventually executed by hanging shortly before the war's end. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer

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The following quotation is taken from one of the last letters of Bonheoffer's, before he was sentenced to death and hung by the Gestapo at Flossenbürg, Germany on Monday April 9th, 1945....

"Is not the weakness of men often more dangerous than deliberate malice? I mean, such things as stupidity, lack of independence, forgetfulness, laziness, idleness, corruption, being easily led astray etc. " August 21st, 1944