Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
TUTU DESMONDIt is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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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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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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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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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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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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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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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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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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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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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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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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