It was this strenuous, this extraordinary obligation that [pastors] Theis and Trocme' expressed to the people in the big gray church. The love they preached was not simply adoration; nor was it simply a love of moral purity, of keeping one's own hands clean of evil. It was not a love of private ecstasy or a private retreat from evil. It was an active, dangerous love that brought help to those who needed it most.
--Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood be Shed, 1979, 110-11. [more to follow]
--Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood be Shed, 1979, 110-11. [more to follow]
