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.
TUTU DESMONDOur 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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A person is a person through other persons.
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Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
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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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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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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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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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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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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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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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