Brethren Quote by Dorothee Solle

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

— Dorothee Solle

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

— Dorothee Solle

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

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

— Dorothee Solle

God has no other hands than ours.

— Dorothee Solle

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

“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

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

— Dorothee Solle

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

Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.

— Dorothee Solle

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

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

— Dorothee Solle