17 Quotes by Dorothee Sölle

A competitive society is a society of envy.

The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him – through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy – will deal with societal suffering in the same way.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.