Immaculee Ilibagiza
Immaculee Ilibagiza
Immaculée Ilibagizais a Rwandan author and motivational speaker. She is also a Roman Catholic and Tutsi. Her first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, is an autobiographical work detailing how she survived during the Rwandan Genocide. She was featured on PBS on one of Wayne Dyer's programs, and also on a December 3, 2006 segment of 60 Minutes...
NationalityRwandan
ProfessionAuthor
CountryRwanda
love supposed
I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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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.
They can only kill us once.
believe heart healing
I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.
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Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.
brother prayer journey
Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
spiritual forgiving world
God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.
powerful love-is hatred
I've seen hatred and I have seen love. And love is more powerful.
thinking justice forgiving
To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.
war battle i-realized
I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.
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Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.