Tag: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ever Day as Our Last

There remains for us only the very narrow way, often extremely difficult to find, of living every day as though it were our last, and yet living in faith and responsibility as though there were to be a great future.     … Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), “After Ten Years”, in    A Testament to Freedom: the…


The Unbridgeable Gulf

We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union.  There is no way from one person to another.  However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank…