What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. — Dorothee Solle Events 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… — Dorothee Solle Emotion 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.… — Dorothee Solle Comfort 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… — Dorothee Sölle Discipleship Copy Share Image
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity. — Dorothee Solle Divinity 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… — Dorothee Solle Anticipate Copy Share Image
Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer. — Dorothee Solle Answers 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… — Dorothee Solle Anxiety Copy Share Image
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. — Dorothee Solle Giving Copy Share Image
There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right… — Dorothee Solle Able Copy Share Image
All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their… — Dorothee Solle Caring Copy Share Image
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we… — Dorothee Solle Brethren Copy Share Image
For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception… — Dorothee Solle Acting Copy Share Image
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy,… — Dorothee Solle Apathy Copy Share Image
Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper. — Dorothee Solle Bible Copy Share Image
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger,… — Dorothee Solle Blessing Copy Share Image
Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a… — Dorothee Solle Acceptance Copy Share Image
To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion… — Dorothee Solle Faces Copy Share Image
This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious. — Dorothee Solle Conscious Copy Share Image
