It is one of the most surprising experiences, but at the same time one of the most incontrovertible, that evil — often in a surprisingly short time — proves its own folly and defeats its own object. That does not mean that punishment follows hard on the heels of every evil action; but it does mean that deliberate transgression of the divine law in the supposed interests of worldly self-preservation has exactly the opposite effect.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer in “After Ten Years: A Reckoning Made at New Year, 1943”
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