A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
TUTU DESMONDIf 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 learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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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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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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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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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning a blind eye or even turning the other cheek.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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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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