Our debt to others

Last updated on: February 12, 2017 at 9:58 am by Dan Peterson

The monument at Flossenbürg — This inscription at Flossenbürg concentration camp reads as follows:
**In resistance to dictatorship and terror, they gave their lives for freedom, justice, and human dignity:**
**Pastor Dr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer**
**Admiral Wilhelm Canaris**
**Captain Ludwig Gehre**
**Major General Hans Oster**
**General Dr. Friedrich von Rabenau**
**Judge Advocate General Karl Sack**
**Captain Dr. Theodor Strünk**
**Murdered on 9 April 1945**
The scriptural citation in the cross is to 2 Timothy 1:7: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Letters and Papers from Prison

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