“If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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