"The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall."

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Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer