Desmond Tutu Quotes
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Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
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.
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?'
It is not too surprising that, having been involved in a policy as evil and dehumanizing as apartheid,
Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone,
do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves.
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.
To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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.
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.
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
After all, we are created in the image of a God who is a diversity of persons who exist in ineffable unity. This
You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
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.
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.
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
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.
I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.
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.
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.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.
We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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.
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.
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
Child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.
People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.
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.
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ...
The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
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.
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
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.
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.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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.
The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.
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.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.