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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.

Tutu Desmond

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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Different Philosophy Togetherness
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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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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Accountable Eyes Forgiveness Philosophy Responsibility
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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Justice Oppression People Philosophy Religious Revolution Spiritual
Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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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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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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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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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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