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.
TUTU DESMONDThe path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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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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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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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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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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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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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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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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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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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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