Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Christian theologian, author and martyr, who was executed in a German concentration camp during the Second World War. Among his powerful writings are these two short sentences about suffering and empathy/compassion in action:
"Some of us suffer a great deal from having our senses dulled in the face of all the sorrows which these war years have brought with them."
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"It seems to me more important actually to share someone's distress than to use smooth words about it." -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
