Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
TUTU DESMONDDiscovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
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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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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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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 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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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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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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