We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
TUTU DESMONDThe path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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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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We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know.
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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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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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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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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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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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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Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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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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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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