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 is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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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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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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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 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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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 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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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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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 have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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