Quote by Desmond Tutu
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you h

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, youve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. – Desmond Tutu

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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. – Desmond Tutu

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Gods love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. – Desmond Tutu

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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. – Desmond Tutu

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Forgiveness is Gods command. – Martin Luther

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[See also] If, as a blind Indiana child once wrote, “forgiveness is the perfume of the violet on the heel that crushed it,” gratitude may safely be characterized as the perfume of the rose on the hand that caressed it. – Quoted in The Judge, 1916 January 8th

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Forgive and forget. – Proverb

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And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32 – Bible

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