Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
TUTU DESMONDWe have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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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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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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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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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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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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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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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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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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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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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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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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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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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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