Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

The war is over and these are our countrymen again.

There must be no revenge … Our aim is to bring people of all races together. All citizens will by equal in the eyes of the law.

we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent "I," separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone. We don’t think about it often, but everything is connected, and we need to restore our connections to a healthy state. Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.

We need to heal this country.

I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.

I am kind; I am humane. I open to you my fatherly arms. Come, all of you; I will receive you all - no less those of the South than those of the West, and of the North, who, gained over by Rigaud, have deserted your firesides, your wives, your children, to place yourselves at his side.

'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.

I was brought up in church, but when I confessed my errors, they put me out.

Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.

Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.