Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
TUTU DESMONDForgiving 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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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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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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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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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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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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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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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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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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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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