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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.

Tutu Desmond

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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Believe End Fail God Good Himself Love Philosophy Spiritual
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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Accountable Eyes Forgiveness Philosophy Responsibility
The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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Break Up Connection Joy Path Relationship Separate
A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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Acceptance Difficult Relationship
We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Break Hard Heart Broken Philosophy
Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Discover Hard Heart Broken Joy Philosophy Save
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Deep Discover Humanity Nice Race
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Compassion Deep Discover Empathy God Philosophy Soul Vulnerable Weak
A person is a person through other persons.
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Deep One Liner Person Philosophy
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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Day Feed Fish Life Man Philosophy Realize Stupidity Teaching
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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Beautiful Human Truth World
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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Alone Human Person Relationship
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Good Life Moment Wrong
I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
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Myself One Liner
God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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God Philosophy Religious Transform World
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up

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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