Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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