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Martin Niemoller Quotes

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“On Wednesday the secret police penetrated the closed church of Friedrich Werder and arrested at the altar eight members of the Council of Brethren....I think how yesterday at Saarbrucken six women and a trusted man of the Protestant community were arrested because they had circulated an election leaflet of the Confessing church....And we recall today how the pulpit of St Anne's church remains empty, because our pastor and brother Muller, with forty-seven other Christian brothers and sisters of our Protestant church, has been taken into custody.”
— Martin Niemoller
Tagged: Christian, Nazis, Protestants, Secret Police, Persecution of Christians
“I cannot help saying quite harshly and bluntly that the Jewish people came to grief and disgrace because of its own ‘Positive Christianity!’ It (the Jewish people) bears a curse throughout the history of the world because it was ready to approve of its Messiah just as long and as far as it thought it could gain some advantage for its own plans and its own aims for Him, His words and His deeds. It bears a curse, because it rejected Him and resisted Him to the death when it became clear that Jesus of Nazareth would not cease calling (the Jews) to repentance and faith, despite their insistence that they were free, strong and proud men and belonged to a pure-blooded, race-concious nation!“‘Positive Christianity,’ which the Jewish people wanted, clashed with ‘Negative Christianity’ as Jesus himself represented it!....Friends, can we risk going with our nation without forgiveness of sins, without that so-called ‘Negative Christianity’ which, when all is said and done, clings in repentance and faith to Jesus as the Savior of sinners? I cannot and you cannot and our nation cannot! ‘Come let us return to the Lord!’”
— Martin Niemoller, From U-boat to Pulpit(1934)
Tagged: Negative Christianity, Jewish People, jesus, Sinners, Repent, Messiah
“What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.”
— Martin Niemoller
Tagged: German, Perish, Despair, Defiance, Nihilism
“The only thing we could not grow accustomed to was the fact that half the ship's company were seasick and the remainder had to clean up all day long.”
— Martin Niemoller, From U-Boat To Pulpit
Tagged: Seasickness
“We have come through a time of peril—and we are not finished with it yet—when we were told: ‘Everything will be quite different when you as a Church cease to have such an entirely different flavor—when you cease to practice preaching which is the opposite of what the world around you preaches. You really must suit your message to the world; you really must bring your creed into harmony with the present. Then you will again become influential and powerful.’”
— Martin Niemoller
Tagged: Peril, Tribulation, Nazis, Church, Creed, harmony
“Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
— Martin Niemoller, MARTIN NIEMÖLLER: "FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SOCIALISTS..."
Tagged: Holocaust, Historical Quotes, History Quotes
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
— Martin Niemoller
Tagged: Socialist, Trade Unionist, Jews, Nazis
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