Carlos Mesters, 'Defenseless Flower,' 1989, p.9

"The (poor) people's main interest is not to interpret the Bible, but to interpret life with help of the Bible. They try to be faithful, not primarily to the meaning the Text has in itself (the historical and literal meaning), but to the meaning they discover in the text for their own lives...The Bible of life was their lives, in which they tried to put into practise and incarnate the word of God. And it was even more: life itself is for them the place where God speaks."