It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Image source: Pietro Annigoni, Glory of St. Maximilian Kolbe, Basilica del Santo, Padua, https://mobile.twitter.com/fatherajds/status/1090828136349122560
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