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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Tutu Desmond

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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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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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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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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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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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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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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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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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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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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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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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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