In prison he wrote: “Not to do just anything, but to do what is right, and to dare; not to float about in the possible, but to bravely seize the real. Freedom is not in the flight of thoughts, but only in action. Move out of anxious hesitation into the storm of events, borne only by God’s commandment and your faith, and freedom will receive your spirit with exultation.”17 To this day his uncommonly clearsighted visions of the shape and mission of the church are waiting to be turned into reality. Among other things he thought it was important that the church be really poor and find its way to a
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