The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
TUTU DESMONDWithin every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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A person is a person through other persons.
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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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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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 simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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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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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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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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When we see others as separate, they become a threat. When we see others as part of us, as connected, as interdependent, then there is no challenge we cannot face—together.
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