Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
TUTU DESMONDDon’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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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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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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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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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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Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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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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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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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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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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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