Home » Quote » Dietrich Bonhoeffer » „Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.“ „Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Tags:DeathEvilSuffering 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 „Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.“ — Jr. „No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.“ — Zeno of Citium „There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.“ — Socrates „Evil is the conscious desire to produce suffering where suffering is not necessary“ — Jordan Peterson „I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.“ — Jr. „Far better is it to have a stout heart always, and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.“ — Herodotus
„Suffering willingly endured is stronger than evil, it spells death to evil.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Tags:DeathEvilSuffering