Wisdom by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the cohesive life

"Christ did not, like a moralist, love a theory of good, but he loved the real man. He was not, like a philosopher, interested in the universally valid, but rather in that which is of help to the real and concrete human being. What worried him was not, like Kant, whether the "maxim of an action can become a principle of general legislation," but whether my action is at this moment helping my neighbor to become a man before God. For indeed, it is not written that God became an idea, a principle, a programme, a universally valid proposition or a law, but that God became a man."

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Ethics"