The most human aspect of a person

The suffering of God in the human body teaches me to respect the weakness of the body, how to say it: pain, illness, death receive a different meaning through Christ's participation. Perhaps they are the most human in a person? Does one have God as a brother in them? Human works, deeds, reason, and strength do not provide such proximity as bodily weakness does...

(Wanda Półtawská /1921–2023/, diary entry, Holy Saturday 1967)