“God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906–1945

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In which marvelling he seeth his God, his Lord, his Maker so high, so great, and so good, in comparison with him that is made, that scarcely the creature seemeth ought to the self. But the clarity and the clearness of Truth and Wisdom maketh him to see and to bear witness that he is made for Love, in which God endlessly keepeth him.