In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
TUTU DESMONDWe have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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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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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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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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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.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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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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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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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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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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