History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches.

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."