Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
TUTU DESMONDYou don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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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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We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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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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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 am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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