The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will… — 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
