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.
TUTU DESMONDLife of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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Discovering more joy does not, save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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Within every hopeless situation and every seemingly hopeless person lies the possibility of transformation
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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 must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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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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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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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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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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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To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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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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Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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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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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.
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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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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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A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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God is transforming the world now–through us–because God loves us.
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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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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