You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning a blind eye or even turning the other cheek.
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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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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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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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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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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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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