We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
TUTU DESMONDIn the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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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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Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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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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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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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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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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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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