Dorothee Solle famous quotes
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Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
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A competitive society is a society of envy.
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With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.
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Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.
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The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.
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This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.
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To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.
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Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.
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There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.
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To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.
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Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.
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Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.
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toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
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Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.
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What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.
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If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
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God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.
-- Dorothee Solle
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