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.
TUTU DESMONDLife of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
More Tutu Desmond Quotes
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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
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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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Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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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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Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.
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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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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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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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