Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
TUTU DESMONDDear 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.
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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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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Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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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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Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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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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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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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
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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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A person is a person through other persons.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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