Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “To be sure, an excessive cultivation of human relationships . . . lead[s] to a cult of the human that is disproportionate to reality. In contrast to that, what I mean here is simply that people are more important to us in life than everything else. That certainly does not mean that the world of material things and practical achievements is of less value. But what is the most beautiful book or picture or house or estate compared to my wife, my parents, my friend? Yet the only person who can speak this way is one who has really found human companionship in life. For many
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