It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
TUTU DESMONDReligion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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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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When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in 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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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 person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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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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