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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.

Tutu Desmond

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Good Life Moment Wrong
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Love Philosophy Plant
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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Alone Human Person Relationship
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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Community Human Life Myself Person Philosophy
Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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Hope Person Possible Situation Transformation
We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another—when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship—our suffering begins to transform.
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Alone Connection Deep Forgiveness Healing Hurt Philosophy Relationship Story
You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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Connection Humanity Philosophy Yourself
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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End Experience God Hope Live Lose Sad Suffer Time Word World Writing
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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Care Cherish Good Great Love Philosophy
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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Different Philosophy Togetherness
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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Justice Oppression People Philosophy Religious Revolution Spiritual
Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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Deep Experience Human Life Live Philosophy Whole
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Deep Discover Humanity Nice Race
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Children God Sorry Suffer
We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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History Learning Sarcastic
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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Day Feed Fish Life Man Philosophy Realize Stupidity Teaching
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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Heart Life Philosophy Purpose
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
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Enemy Hate Humanity Oppression Recognize Risk
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up
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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Deep Fall People Pull River Stop
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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Art Human Life Philosophy Suffer
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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Beautiful Friendship Good Love Togetherness World
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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Beginning Forgiveness Grace Person Philosophy True
God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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God Philosophy Religious Transform World
We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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Break Hard Heart Broken Philosophy
In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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End Generous Joy
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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Believe End Fail God Good Himself Love Philosophy Spiritual

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 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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