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Clemens
August Graf von Galen
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“I
repeat, steel yourselves and hold fast! At this moment we are not the hammer,
but the anvil. Others, chiefly intruders and apostates, hammer at us; they are
striving violently to wrench us, our nation and our youth from our belief in
God. We are the anvil, I say, and not the hammer, but what happens in the
forge? Go and ask the blacksmith and see what he says. Whatever is beaten out
on the anvil receives its shape from the anvil as well as the hammer. The anvil
cannot and need not strike back. It need only be hard and firm. If it is tough
enough it invariably outlives the hammer. No matter how vehemently the hammer
falls; the anvil remains standing in quiet strength, and for a long time will play
its part in helping to shape what is being moulded.”
- The Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen
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Bishop
Von Galen stared Hitler in the face.
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