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.
TUTU DESMOND
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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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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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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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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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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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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 learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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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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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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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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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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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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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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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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