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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.

Tutu Desmond

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Love Philosophy Plant
In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Believe End Fail God Good Himself Love Philosophy Spiritual
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Good Life Moment Wrong
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
I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Myself One Liner
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Deep Discover Humanity Nice Race
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
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Argument Improvement One Liner Raise Voice Yourself
In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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End Generous Joy
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
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
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
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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Alone God Learning Philosophy Spiritual Truth
The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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Break Up Connection Joy Path Relationship Separate
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Fire Smart Warm Winter Yourself
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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Language Philosophy Power Reality

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