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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.

Tutu Desmond

In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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End Generous Joy
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Children God Sorry Suffer
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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Animal Appreciation Justice Oppression Philosophy Situation Yourself
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Love Philosophy Plant
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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Deep Hurt Religion
We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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History Learning Sarcastic
A person is a person through other persons.
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Deep One Liner Person Philosophy
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Argument Improvement One Liner Raise Voice Yourself
God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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God Philosophy Religious Transform World
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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Community Human Life Myself Person Philosophy
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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Justice Oppression People Philosophy Religious Revolution Spiritual
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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Alone God Learning Philosophy Spiritual Truth
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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Discover Joy Philosophy Possible True Weakness
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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Beginning Forget Forgiveness Philosophy
I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Myself One Liner
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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Different Philosophy Togetherness

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