We have learned a bit too late in the day that action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

Variant translation: "We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility"

Letters and Papers from Prison [Widerstand und Ergebung: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft] (Touchstone, 1997), Part III: Holding Out until the Overthrow, "Thoughts on the Day of the Baptism of Dietrich Wilhelm Rüdiger Bethge, May 1944"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

We have learned a bit too late in the day that action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

We have learned a bit too late in the day that action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

We have learned a bit too late in the day that action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

We have learned a bit too late in the day that action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.