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Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

Tutu Desmond

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up
We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.
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Break Healing Hurt Repair Responsibility Togetherness
I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
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Act Believe Commitment Deep Evil Philosophy
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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Heart Life Philosophy Purpose
We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know.
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Beautiful Friendship Good Love Togetherness World
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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Animal Appreciation Justice Oppression Philosophy Situation Yourself
God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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God Philosophy Religious Transform World
Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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Forgiveness Good Philosophy Understand
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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God Heaven People Religious Sin Spiritual Standard Surprise
We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
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Discover Joy Philosophy Possible True Weakness
Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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End Experience God Hope Live Lose Sad Suffer Time Word World Writing
In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Believe End Fail God Good Himself Love Philosophy Spiritual
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Love Philosophy Plant
When we see others as separate, they become a threat. When we see others as part of us, as connected, as interdependent, then there is no challenge we cannot face—together.
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Challenge Connection Philosophy Separate Togetherness Unity
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Good Life Moment Wrong
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Fire Smart Warm Winter Yourself

Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

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