Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Bonhoeffer on relationships

"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. The only profitable relationship to others--and especially to our weaker brothers and sisters--is one of love, and that means the will to be in community with them. God did not despise humanity, but became a human for humanity's sake."

--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As found on pg. 263 of "A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer" The original quote comes from "Letters and Papers from Prison 9"


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2 comments:

Sarah Roberts said...

nice reminder for the times we have

Jason Oller said...

I used this qoute and some others I know in my most recent blog post....