[오늘의 한문장] 산둥 수용소

**라인홀드 니버의 다음과 같은 기도문을 보자, 내가 수용소에서 했던 두서없는 생각의 편린들이 분명하게 정리되었다.
"오 주님, 우리가 바꿀 수 없는 것에 대해서는 받아들일 수 있게 하시고, 우리가 바꿀 수 있는 것에 대해서는 만족하지 않게 하소서. 그리고 이 둘의 차이를 잘 분별할 수 있게 하소서." - P93

This deeper framework for lif...

This deeper framework for life came to me rather suddenly, as to many in those years, through the speaking and writing of Reinhold Niebuhr. Here was a searching realism that was willing to face all the ambiguity and squalor of any human social situation. At the same time, it was intensely moral, for it had a deep commitment to human good. - P72

"It may have been, as I recall Reinhold Niebuhr once saying somewhere, the goodness and rationality of men which made the rise of democracy in human affairs possible. - P128

I was continually reminded of Reinhold Niebuhr’s remark that religion is not the place where the problem of man’s egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle between human pride and God’s grace takes place. - P192

Injustice to other men, as Reinhold Niebuhr has said, is the social consequence of an inward idolatry, the worship of one’s own self or group. - P232

Together we are very powerful...

Together we are very powerful, and we have a seldom-told, seldom-remembered history of victories and transformations that can give us confidence that yes, we can change the world because we have many times before. You row forward looking back, and telling this history is part of helping people navigate toward the future. We need a litany, a rosary, a sutra, a mantra, a war chant of our victories. The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.

Your opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have no power, that there’s no reason to act, that you can’t win. Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away. And though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn’t enough reason to hope. But there are good reasons.

She stood before us, without ...

She stood before us, without notes, books or nerves. The lectern was occupied by her handbag. She looked around, smiled, was still, and began. - P3

I can’t remember what she taught us in that first lesson. But I knew obscurely that, for once in my life, I had arrived at the right place. - P3

[오늘의 한문장] 산둥 수용소

"아무리 성자 같은 사람도 식사다운 식사를 못하면 죄인처럼 행동할 것이다."
베르톨트 브레히트, 서푼짜리 오페라 (열린책들 역간) - P11