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The only remedy for a barren heart is prayer, however poor and inadequate.

— Sophie Scholl

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Letter to her boyfriend, Fritz Hartnagel, as translated in At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl (1987), p. 256; edited by Inge Jens, translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn; also in Voices of the Holocaust : Resistors, Liberation, Understanding (1997) by Lorie Jenkins McElroy

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Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause?

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Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.

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How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?

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I'm still so remote from God that I don't even sense his presence when I pray.

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