Love Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judgment, for Bonhoeffer, is never a neutral act; it carries a moral temperature. By splitting "God's truth" from "Satan's truth", he refuses the comforting idea that truth is simply a set of correct statements. Truth can be weaponized. It can be deployed with the posture of love - seeing the world as created, finite, and still worth redeeming - or with the posture of envy, where the act of judging becomes a covert way to punish what you cannot possess or control.

The phrasing is a quiet indictment of religious seriousness that curdles into cruelty. "Judges created things" sounds like discernment, even piety, but Bonhoeffer forces a question underneath the pious surface: what do you want from your judgment? God's truth, in this framing, judges to heal, to set limits without denying dignity. Satan's truth is still "truth" in the sense that it may correctly identify faults, hypocrisies, failures - but it does so with a prosecutorial relish. Envy and hatred don't need lies; they can thrive on accurate information used as a cudgel.

Context sharpens the stakes. Bonhoeffer wrote as a German pastor resisting Nazism, watching a society baptize domination with moral language. In that world, "truth" was constantly invoked - about purity, weakness, degeneracy - and the problem was not only falsity but motive. His line warns that moral clarity without love becomes spiritually indistinguishable from malice. It's a diagnostic tool aimed at the judge in the mirror, not a slogan for judging others.