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“”Bonhoeffer recognized that standard-issue "religion" had made God small, having dominion only over those things we could not explain. That” religious" God was merely the "God of the gaps," the God who concerned himself with our "secret sins" and hidden thoughts. But Bonhoeffer rejected this abbreviated God. The God of the Bible was Lord over everything, over every scientific discovery.””

“…For this reason her last years were clouded with the great sorrow that she bore for the fate of the Jews among our people, a burden which she shared with them and a suffering which she, too, felt. She stemmed from another age, from another spiritual world, and this world does not descend with her into the grave.This heritage for which we thank her lays duties upon us”

“A refusal to compromise over the right principle, free speech for the free individual, that fact that one's word once given is binding, clarity and common sense in one's opinions, candor and simplicity of life in private and in public-these were factors that went to her very heart..”