Religion is made up
Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes. Dorothee Solle
Dorothee Solle
To take sides with
To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names. Dorothee Solle
Our whole life consists
Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer. Dorothee Solle
A competitive society is
A competitive society is a society of envy. Dorothee Solle
This is the purpose
This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious. Dorothee Solle
There is no wrong
There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves. Dorothee Solle
A language that takes
A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently. Dorothee Solle
God has no other
God has no other hands than ours. Dorothee Solle
All fundamentalist theologians make
All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by … Read more
To be content with
To be content with the world as it is is to be dead. Dorothee Solle