A lot of us identify with timidity because we work in places where the majority of the people around us are not Christians. Maybe they are even anti-Christian, and sometimes aggressively.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was opposed to Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, and ran “underground seminaries” during the war. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer was executed in the spring of 1945.