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.
TUTU DESMONDIt is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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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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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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