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Tutu Desmond

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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Deep Fall People Pull River Stop
We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Break Hard Heart Broken Philosophy
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Deep Discover Humanity Nice Race
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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End Experience God Hope Live Lose Sad Suffer Time Word World Writing
God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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God Philosophy Religious Transform World
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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Attitude Judge Lonely Negative People Philosophy Separate Yourself
Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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Deep Experience Human Life Live Philosophy Whole
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Children God Sorry Suffer
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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Deep Family God Yourself
Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
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Beginning Forgiveness Grace Person Philosophy True
We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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History Learning Sarcastic
Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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Forgiveness Good Philosophy Understand
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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Deep Hurt Religion
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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Different Philosophy Togetherness
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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Heart Life Philosophy Purpose
Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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