“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Just as this scale predicted the future health and happiness of the children in this study, so does knowing and telling our… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
