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Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
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A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
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Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.
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