You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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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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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It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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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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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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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know.
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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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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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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 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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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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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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