God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
TUTU DESMONDDon’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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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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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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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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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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Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.
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If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people.
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You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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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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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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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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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