Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
TUTU DESMONDForgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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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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We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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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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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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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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