Desmond Tutu Quotes About Forgiveness
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.
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Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
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