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Dorothee Solle quotes: Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.

Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.

Dorothee Solle quotes: What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

Dorothee Solle quotes: Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

Dorothee Solle quotes: Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

Dorothee Solle quotes: A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

Dorothee Solle quotes: One of the oldest longings of all people of mystical sensibility is to be rid of disguises to the point of becoming naked.

One of the oldest longings of all people of mystical sensibility is to be rid of disguises to the point of becoming naked.

Dorothee Solle quotes: Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

Dorothee Solle quotes: A competitive society is a society of envy.

A competitive society is a society of envy.

Dorothee Solle quotes: If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

Dorothee Solle quotes: With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Dorothee Solle quotes: If we had possessions, Francis would say, we would also need weapons. He held on to the inescapable link of poverty and peace.

If we had possessions, Francis would say, we would also need weapons. He held on to the inescapable link of poverty and peace.

Dorothee Solle quotes: To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

Dorothee Solle quotes: God has no other hands than ours.

God has no other hands than ours.

Dorothee Solle quotes: Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.