Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Evil, Silence, Faces

• We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mirrors, Order, Silence

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.50, Rowman & Littlefield

• The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Differences, Silence, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

• Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Silence, Speech

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Geffrey B. Kelly (1990). “A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Harpercollins

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