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.
TUTU DESMONDYou show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning a blind eye or even turning the other cheek.
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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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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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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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Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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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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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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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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