Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away.

Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God (ed. Thomas Nelson Inc, 2007) - ISBN: 9781418551179