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

Tutu Desmond

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Deep Discover Humanity Nice Race
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
We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Break Hard Heart Broken Philosophy
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
Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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Beginning Possible Suffer Transformation
Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Discover Hard Heart Broken Joy Philosophy Save
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
To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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Children Protect Sex Violence
A person is a person through other persons.
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Deep One Liner Person Philosophy
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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Eyes Land Oppression Religion War
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Good Life Moment Wrong
I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Myself One Liner
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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Deep Family God Yourself
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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Animal Appreciation Justice Oppression Philosophy Situation Yourself
We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
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Community Human Life Myself Person Philosophy

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