Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
TUTU DESMONDWe 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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A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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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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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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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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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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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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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people.
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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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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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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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