“By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which other are just as entitled to as we are.”

Source: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 185.
Source: The Cost of Discipleship

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

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