We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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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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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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