There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
“We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it… — Dorothee Sölle Copy Share Image
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
