Drew’s Reviews > Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy > Status Update

‘Sigmund Freud, whose books were also burned that night, made a similar remark: “Only our books? In earlier times they would have burned us with them.”’

‘He wrote of the “forty young girls who wanted to become nuns entered in a solemn procession wearing nun’s habits with blue or green sashes…. With unbelievable simplicity, grace, and great seriousness they sang Evensong while a priest officiated at the altar…. The ritual was truly no longer merely ritual. Instead, it was worship in the true sense.”’