Belief

Camilla 2022-03-24 09:03:18

Movies are convincing as a medium, and if it tells me it's a true story, I really believe it. While watching this movie, especially at the end, I really asked again "is this true" "does anyone really choose to die between life and death?" But I think the opening credits say it's a true story , I was shocked again. The first page of the Bible should also say that this is a true story.

I've also come to an age where my heart is turbulent, and I feel like I'm trying to win a place in the world, and sometimes I don't want to. Franz's choice of secret and quiet is a saint's choice. He can participate in the Nazis completely, climb up like others, and gain fame and fortune. But he chose not to cooperate in what he thought was injustice by virtue of his conscience and faith. This story does not need to be told about World War II. In every era, there are people who are not complicit in the secular world. They give up fame, fortune, and even a beautiful family to defend the truth. There are people who are not praised for writing like this, and who do such things with faith, maybe the good in this world is greater than the evil. Each of us makes a small choice, sacrificing ourselves for the truth, sacrificing our own interests, although not known by others, but God knows. When we give up trying to survive, a new light shines into our lives. For the sake of God and faith, give up life, choose death, give up family, and give up the people and things that you cherish. When we have the courage to let go of these, a new light will shine into our lives

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  • Lorenz Schwaninger: [Talking to his daughter Fani, who is also Franz Jägerstätter's wife, about Franz's imprisonment and the resultant mistreatment that the family is facing] Better to suffer injustice than to do it.

  • Closing Title Card: ...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. -George Eliot