Quote #3- When Helping Hurts

"Every minute since the fall, each human being is the proverbial 'square peg in a round hole.'  We don't fit right, because we were shaped for something else....Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do far more harm than good."

"Instead of seeing themselves as being created in the image of God, low income people often feel they are inferior to others.  This can paralyze the poor from taking initiative and from seizing opportunities to improve their situation, thereby locking them into material poverty.  But the economically rick often have "god- complexes."  One of the biggest problems in many poverty-alleviation efforts is that their design and implementation exacerbates the poverty of being of the rich- their god-complexes- and the poverty of being of the poor- their feelings of inferiority and shame."