Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
TUTU DESMONDWhen 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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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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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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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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