Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
TUTU DESMONDDon’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
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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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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 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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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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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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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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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 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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we all lose hope that the suffering in our lives and in the world will ever end.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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