You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu
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  1. Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver

  2. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. - Jim Valvano

  3. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  4. A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

  5. What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. - Unknown

More Quotes By Desmond Tutu
  1. Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

  2. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

  3. We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

  4. Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter – you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

  5. We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

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