You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
TUTU DESMONDWe 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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A person is a person through other persons.
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We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
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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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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 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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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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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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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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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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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 learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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