In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
TUTU DESMONDDifferences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need for one another.
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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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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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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.
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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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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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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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When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
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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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Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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