If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people.
TUTU DESMONDWhen 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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We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.
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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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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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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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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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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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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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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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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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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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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