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![Desmond Tutu quotes: Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew. Desmond Tutu quotes: Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-477833.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. Desmond Tutu quotes: I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1727737.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?' Desmond Tutu quotes: Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1536963.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: It is not too surprising that, having been involved in a policy as evil and dehumanizing as apartheid, Desmond Tutu quotes: It is not too surprising that, having been involved in a policy as evil and dehumanizing as apartheid,](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1558851.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers. Desmond Tutu quotes: Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-772260.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone, Desmond Tutu quotes: I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone,](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1236004.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves. Desmond Tutu quotes: do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-224685.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots. Desmond Tutu quotes: One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-689197.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates. Desmond Tutu quotes: To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1322408.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: 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. Desmond Tutu quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1865131.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish. Desmond Tutu quotes: When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-953738.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening. Desmond Tutu quotes: If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-324213.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: After all, we are created in the image of a God who is a diversity of persons who exist in ineffable unity. This Desmond Tutu quotes: After all, we are created in the image of a God who is a diversity of persons who exist in ineffable unity. This](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1148940.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others. Desmond Tutu quotes: You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1584344.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear. Desmond Tutu quotes: I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-111341.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness. Desmond Tutu quotes: I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1675351.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification. Desmond Tutu quotes: Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1954611.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven. Desmond Tutu quotes: God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1670428.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen. Desmond Tutu quotes: I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1534475.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white. Desmond Tutu quotes: We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-39493.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream. Desmond Tutu quotes: God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1938612.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004] Desmond Tutu quotes: Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1786714.jpg)
[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
![Desmond Tutu quotes: The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous. Desmond Tutu quotes: The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1479855.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters. Desmond Tutu quotes: We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1384705.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Desmond Tutu quotes: Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1600546.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another. Desmond Tutu quotes: Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1635325.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick. Desmond Tutu quotes: Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1657863.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up. Desmond Tutu quotes: One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1923440.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives. Desmond Tutu quotes: I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1665307.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen. Desmond Tutu quotes: Child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1915945.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Desmond Tutu quotes: People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1695899.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. Desmond Tutu quotes: In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1873818.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ... Desmond Tutu quotes: I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ...](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-571459.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person. Desmond Tutu quotes: The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-525438.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. Desmond Tutu quotes: God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-510501.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. Desmond Tutu quotes: God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-436160.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? Desmond Tutu quotes: Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-393071.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths. Desmond Tutu quotes: We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-281632.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves. Desmond Tutu quotes: Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-215575.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. Desmond Tutu quotes: When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-58497.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life. Desmond Tutu quotes: The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-983276.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero. Desmond Tutu quotes: The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1217199.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls. Desmond Tutu quotes: I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-1058933.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB. Desmond Tutu quotes: I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-988508.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. Desmond Tutu quotes: We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-910225.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quotes: If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations. Desmond Tutu quotes: If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/desmond-tutu-quotes-883213.jpg)