Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
TUTU DESMONDIn 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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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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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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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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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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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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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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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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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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I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
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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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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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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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