At the Heart of the White Rose Quotes

“Even though May came in accompanied by rain, all the fields were bright with the loveliest green imaginable. A sunbeam pierced a little gap in the dark sea of cloud, and the world laughed and glittered in the light of heaven. I stood there marveling and thought, Does God take us for fools, that he should light up the world for us with such
consummate beauty in the radiance of his glory, in his honor? And nothing, on the other hand, but rapine and murder? Where does the truth lie? Should one go off and build a little house with flowers outside the windows and a garden outside the door and extol and thank God and turnone’s back on the world and its filth? Isn’t seclusion a form of treachery of desertion? I’m weak and puny, but I want to do what is right.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“May God never grant me an earthly destination, so that I never come to rest till the end of my days.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“People shouldn’t be ambivalent themselves just because everything else is, yet one constantly meets the view that, because we’ve been born into a world of contradictions, we must defer to it. Oddly enough, this thoroughly un-Christian attitude is especially common among self-styled Christians.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“What a mother says sticks, like it or not.

[letter to his mother, 22 Jan 1938]”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“I sometimes feel as if my puny brain is the battleground for all these battles. I can't remain aloof because there's no happiness for me in so doing, because there's no happiness without truth—and this war is essentially a war about truth. Every false throne must first crack and splinter, that's the distressing thing, before the genuine can appear in unadulterated form. I mean that personally and spiritually, not politically. I've been presented with a choice.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“Man in the midst of his world resembles a fire that flickers relentlessly, inflames us with apparent unpredictability, burns, and dies. Should we blind ourselves to these dangers? Isn't it preferable to die of ever-gnawing pain than to roam the world freely and easily, but falsely? Is there no consolation?
Love is the only consolation, because love requires no proof. It exists like God himself, whose existence could doubtless be proved but was sensed by mankind long before any evidence could be produced.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“Shadows exist for the sake of light, but light takes precedence.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“So spring has come after all! People must have been thinking that every year for thousands of years, and it's true: However much our spirits may rise and fall, we see the light above us in the vale of despair, and when we're up again after untold trials and tribulations, we breathe a sign of relief and tell ourselves: It had to be this way—everything's bound to come right again.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“Our surroundings aren't all that important. What counts is what we put into them.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“Yes, the fall has arrived, and one mustn't blind oneself to the fact. That bleak word means more than just the falling of withered leaves, more than wild, windswept skies—more, too, than the delicate veils of mist that enshroud everything in melancholy. It means dying itself. The dying [you] can't evade because you're still young and believe in the return of spring. You have to pass through this process of dying, which doesn't, after all, mean death itself.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“Inner strength is our most powerful weapon.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“Man lives by memories as well as ideas.”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl

“grant”
― Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl