Bonhoeffer on How We Should See Others

True, challenging, and freeing all at the same time:

"Nothing that we despise in others is entirely absent from ourselves. We often expect from others more than we are willing to do ourselves. Why have we hitherto thought so intemperately about man and his frailty and temptability? 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 weaker brethren - is one of love, and that means the will to hold fellowship with them. God himself did not despise humanity, but became man for men's sake."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer "After Ten Years: A Reckoning made at New Year 1943"

Thanks to Phil Roushey for citing this.