It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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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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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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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 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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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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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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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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