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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.

Tutu Desmond

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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Care Cherish Good Great Love Philosophy
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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Beginning Forget Forgiveness Philosophy
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Deep Discover Humanity Nice Race
I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Myself One Liner
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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God Heaven People Religious Sin Spiritual Standard Surprise
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Argument Improvement One Liner Raise Voice Yourself
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Compassion Deep Discover Empathy God Philosophy Soul Vulnerable Weak
I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
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Act Believe Commitment Deep Evil Philosophy
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up
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
The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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Break Up Connection Joy Path Relationship Separate
You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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Connection Humanity Philosophy Yourself
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
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
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Art Human Life Philosophy Suffer
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Good Life Moment Wrong
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Children God Sorry Suffer

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