"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@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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