Jacob Medina’s Reviews > Alexander Schmorell: Saint of the German Resistance > Status Update

“The narrative of St Alexander’s life reminds us to be judicious in our choice of friends and in the heroes we hold up as models for our children and ourselves.”

“It was their Christian faith that gave them the fortitude to willingly risk their lives, to sacrifice themselves for others and for the sake of serving their deepest convictions and truth.”

Himmler: “we shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity.”

“God arranges everything according to His will and for our good.”

“Even in the last weeks of his life, Schmorell never lost his self possession or the confidence that what he had done was right. It was distressed to see this young man, so obviously gifted and full of promise, standing before me with so terrible a doom upon him; but where I was shaken, he was serene and even lighthearted.”

Alexander struggled with feelings of disquiet and despair.

“Suffering tempers the character and forms real people.”

“Christianity… teaches not racial superiority but the brotherhood of men.”

“It is not given to any human being, in any circumstance, to make judgments that are reserved to God alone. No one can know what goes on in the soul of a mentally afflicted person. No one can know what secret inner ripening can come from suffering and sorrow. Every individual’s life is priceless. We are all dear to God.”