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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is recognise that we are humans too.
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.
But the other, more exhilarating than anything that I have ever experienced, and something I hadn't expected, to discover that we have an extraordinary capacity for good.
We received death threats, yes, but you see, when you are in a struggle, there are going to have to be casualties, and why should you be exempt?
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Human beings are fundamentally good. The aberration, in fact, is the evil one, for God created us ultimately for God, for goodness, for laughter, for joy, for compassion, for caring.