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.
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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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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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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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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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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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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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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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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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