“God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by God, by others and by himself. He enters the community of Christians with his demands, sets up his own law, and judges the brethren and God himself accordingly. He acts as if he is the creator of the Christian community, as if his dream binds men together.

When things do not go his way, he calls an effort a failure. When his ideal picture is destroyed, he sees the community going to smash. So he first becomes an accuser of his brethren, then an accuser of God, and finally the despairing accuser of himself.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “Life Together”, quoted from from “What We Have Uncommon”, Kevin Miller, editor at large, LEADERSHIP magazine. Winter edition, 2003, p. 10.