Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

That was the fatal mistake of the false Protestant ethic which diluted Christian love into patriotism, loyalty to friends, and industriousness, which in short, perverted the better righteousness into justitia civilis.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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• That was the fatal mistake of the false Protestant ethic which diluted Christian love into patriotism, loyalty to friends, and industriousness, which in short, perverted the better righteousness into justitia civilis.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Friends
  • Christian
  • Mistake