We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
TUTU DESMONDMuch 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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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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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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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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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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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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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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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