We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
TUTU DESMONDThough wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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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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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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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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I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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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; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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