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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A person is a person through other persons.
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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 the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
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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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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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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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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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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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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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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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