Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
TUTU DESMONDWe 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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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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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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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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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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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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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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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