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.
TUTU DESMONDThere 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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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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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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When we see others as separate, they become a threat. When we see others as part of us, as connected, as interdependent, then there is no challenge we cannot face—together.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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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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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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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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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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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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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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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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