Home » Quote » Dietrich Bonhoeffer » „Jesus bluntly calls the evil person evil.“ „Jesus bluntly calls the evil person evil.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Tags:EvilPersonality Related quotes „Jesus bluntly calls the evil person evil. If I am assailed, I am not to condone or justify aggression. Patient endurance of evil does not mean a recognition of its rights. That is sheer sentimentality, and Jesus will have nothing to do with it. The shameful assault, the deed of violence and the act of exploitation are still evil. … The very fact that the evil which assaults him is unjustifiable makes it imperative that he should not resist it, but play it out and overcome it by patiently enduring the evil person. Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer „[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.“ — Jr. „There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons“ — Hannah Arendt „We believe firmly in the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. I can see no conflict between our devotion to Jesus Christ and our present action. In fact, I can see a necessary relationship. If one is truly devoted to the religion of Jesus he will seek to rid the earth of social evils. The gospel is social as well as personal.“ — Jr. „The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer „Patient endurance of evil does not mean a recognition of its rights. That is sheer sentimentality, and Jesus will have nothing to do with it.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer „The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.“ — Jr. „If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.“ — Horace Mann