Holy Week (but not quite Life Together)

I love a good quote. I use them all the time because they clarify, condense and add considerable weight to an already good point. Churchill said: “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” Well, I would add that it is even a good thing for educated people to color their conversations with a great quote every now and then. I am all with Marlene Dietrich here: “I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.” By the time this post comes out, we will be nearing the end of Holy Week. Easter is quickly approaching, but we still have to go through the darkest hours of Good Friday and Holy Saturday. It seemed to me that instead of continuing our discussion of Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, that we