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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“But the false serpent persuaded Adam that he must still do something to become like God: he must achieve that likeness by deciding and acting for himself...He wanted instead to unravel the mystery of his being for himself, to make himself what God had already made him. That was the Fall of man.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
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The Cost of Discipleship The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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