Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Truth Telling

The man who tells the truth out of cynicism is a liar.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~

Letters and Papers from Prison (London: SCM, 1953), 54.

3 comments:

Isaac Gross said...

Is that out of Discipleship or Ethics? I know he has a chapter on telling the truth in Ethics that is great.

d. miller said...

It's from Letters and Papers from Prison, which I'm reading now and finding excellent. He mentions working on his Ethics so the overlap makes sense.

Isaac Gross said...

oh, haven't read that yet . . .