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“The first was the significance of assessing one’s work in terms of its tangible consequences. He’d arrived in the United States an accomplished intellectual; he returned home concerned with what his theology and faith meant in the real world. As Germany’s situation grew darker in the mid-1930s, this interest deepened. Bonhoeffer came to see his work—as minister, activist, and eventually political resister—in relation to its tangible impact. What lessons did Christianity offer to a nation controlled by the Third Reich? How was a follower of Christ to advance righteousness in the face of Nazi atrocities? The genesis of these questions dated directly to his year in New York.”
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.”
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
“Like Bonhoeffer, leaders today must nurture a strong sense of self-discipline to direct their attention and energy toward what really matters.”
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
“This is an essential lesson for anyone who yearns to lead. The temptation, especially in times of discouragement and failure, is to leap into the first opportunity that comes our way, to do something—anything—that may advance our mission. But this is not, as Douglass realized, right action for leaders. Right action requires taking a long pause and considering how one can do the most good. This always entails putting one’s gifts and experience to their best use.”
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
“The second lesson that Bonhoeffer took away from his time in America was the power of empathy. Through his experience in the black community, he discovered a world and a set of perspectives very different from his own. The more he learned about African-Americans, the more he understood what it meant to live on the margins of society. Bonhoeffer nourished this empathy, using it to try to understand the suffering of others—including victims of Nazi brutality. In late 1942, Bonhoeffer would define this empathy as “the view from below,” the ability to see “the great events of world history … from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled—in short, from the perspective of those who suffer.”
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
― Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
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