"If we who are the body of Christ are not Jesus, who will ever be? The
world has need of the presence of Jesus, in the word of the gospels, in
the holy bread and wine, and in us. Somewhere in all the cynicisms and
disappointments that bind and stunt their lives, men need to find a
living Jesus, one who can hear their pain and understand their grief and
shame; someone to be the love of God with them. It has to be a poor
man...doesn't it? To touch and heal the pain of men's poverty? I mean
all kinds of poverty: the poverty of their need, and their
brokenheartedness, of their sin...It would need a man poor in spirit and
poor and means to comfort the loneliness of the poor. It is not
possible for a rich man's hand to dry the tears of the poor--is it?"
The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy, Penelope Wilcock.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Jesus
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