To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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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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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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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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A person is a person through other persons.
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