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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A quote from Oscar Romero

Let us not measure the church by the number of its members or by its material buildings. The church has built many houses of worship, many seminaries, many building that have been taken from her. They have been stolen and turned into libraries and barracks and markets and other things.
That doesn’t matter.
The material walls here will be left behind in history. What matters is you, the people, your hearts.
God’s grace giving you God’s truth and life.
Don’t measure yourselves by your numbers. Measure yourselves by the sincerity of heart with which you follow the truth and light of our divine Redeemer.
--Oscar Romero, December 19, 1977
(as found in "The Violence of Love")