![Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused](/assets/img/quote-photos/whenever-i-allow-anything-but-tenderness-and-compassion-to-dictate-my-response-to.jpg)
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