God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.
Dorothee SolleDeath is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
Dorothee SolleA language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.
Dorothee SolleThere is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.
Dorothee Solle