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.
TUTU DESMONDMuch 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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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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 are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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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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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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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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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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