Dorothee Solle Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A competitive society is a society of envy.

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

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

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

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

God has no other hands than ours.

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.