Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
TUTU DESMONDDifferences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need for one another.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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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 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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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
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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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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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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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