When Jesus commanded us ...

... to love our neighbors as ourselves, it was not just for our neighbors' sakes that he commanded it, but for our own sakes as well. Not to help find some way to feed the children who are starving to death is to have some precious part of who we are starve to death with them. Not to give ourselves to the human beings we know who may be starving not for food but for what we have in our hearts to nourish them with is to be, ourselves, diminished and crippled as human beings.
- Frederick Buechner
from Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
as quoted on God's Politics

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Anonym sa...

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