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.
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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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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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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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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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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