Quotes from Dorothee Solle

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

God has no other hands than ours.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

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.

Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.

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.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.