Thought for the day, Saturday 20th December

International Human Solidarity Day

“Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitariness and pride of power and with its pleas for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offence, shock the world far more than they are doing now. Christians should take a stronger stand in favour of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 – 1945), executed by the Nazis for his stance against them, quoted in Christian Mystics by Matthew Fox

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