[Dialogue] Quote from Bonhoeffer

[Terry Bergdall]

 "To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat
is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The
ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to
extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation
is to live."

I believe this is from "After Ten Years" in Letters and Papers from Prison.
Terry

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:50 AM, George Holcombe <geowanda at earthlink.net>wrote:

> What was that quote from Bonhoeffer a few days ago about lost causes, or
> going down with the ship, something like that.  I was trying to look it up
> and couldn't find it.
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> Hope appeareth, but it is not your Hope—you do not have anything to do
> with it. It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an alien—it
> just appeareth! You do not even know why you hope. How in the world could
> you hope when there is absolutely nothing to justify any hope?    ~Joseph
> W. Mathews
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