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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.

Tutu Desmond

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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Beginning Forgiveness Grace Person Philosophy True
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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Believe End Fail God Good Himself Love Philosophy Spiritual
Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Hope Person Possible Situation Transformation
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream to find out why they’re falling in.
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Deep Fall People Pull River Stop
We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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History Learning Sarcastic
Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Discover Hard Heart Broken Joy Philosophy Save
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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Justice Oppression People Philosophy Religious Revolution Spiritual
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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Break Healing Hurt Repair Responsibility Togetherness
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Compassion Deep Discover Empathy God Philosophy Soul Vulnerable Weak
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Argument Improvement One Liner Raise Voice Yourself
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Good Life Moment Wrong
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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Beautiful Human Truth World
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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End Experience God Hope Live Lose Sad Suffer Time Word World Writing
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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Alone Human Person Relationship
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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God Heaven People Religious Sin Spiritual Standard Surprise
A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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Acceptance Difficult Relationship

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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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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