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 DESMONDGod is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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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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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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When we see others as separate, they become a threat. When we see others as part of us, as connected, as interdependent, then there is no challenge we cannot face—together.
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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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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 need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
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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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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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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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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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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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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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