"Only by living completely in the world can one learn to believe. One must abandon every attempt to make something of oneself— even to make of oneself a righteous person." Bonhoeffer via Dillard

"Only by living completely in the world can one learn to believe. One must abandon every attempt to make something of oneself— even to make of oneself a righteous person." Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote this in a letter from prison a year before the Nazis hanged him for resisting Nazism and plotting to assassinate Hitler. Page 171, Andy Dillard, For the Time Being Abandon all hope of fruition. Slogan number 28 from the Lojong