"It is worse to be evil than to do evil. It is worse when a liar tells the truth than when a lover of truth lies, worse when a person who hates humanity practices neighbourly love than when a loving person once falls victim to hatred. The lie is better than truth in the mouth of a liar, as hatred is better than acts of neighbourly love by a misanthrope. One sin is not like another. They have different weights. There are heavier and lighter sins. Falling away is far more serious than falling down." Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Ethics as Formation" in Ethics, pp. 77.
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