Time Quotes by Desmond Tutu

Without forgiveness, there is no future.

— Desmond Tutu

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

— Desmond Tutu

I have a lot of time for young people.

— Desmond Tutu

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might…

— Desmond Tutu

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

— Desmond Tutu

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

— Desmond Tutu

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

— Desmond Tutu

I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of…

— Desmond Tutu

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier…

— Desmond Tutu

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

— Desmond Tutu

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

— Desmond Tutu

Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than…

— Desmond Tutu

Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness…

— Desmond Tutu

Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy…

— Desmond Tutu

The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket,…

— Desmond Tutu

The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge…

— Desmond Tutu

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need…

— Desmond Tutu

I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid…

— Desmond Tutu

“...the cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way…

— Desmond Tutu

God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it…

— Desmond Tutu

I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.…

— Desmond Tutu

Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other…

— Desmond Tutu

There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing…

— Desmond Tutu

Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that…

— Desmond Tutu

It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we…

— Desmond Tutu

He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact…

— Desmond Tutu

You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of…

— Desmond Tutu

“Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we…

— Desmond Tutu

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

— Desmond Tutu

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

— Desmond Tutu

A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well…

— Desmond Tutu

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

— Desmond Tutu

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we…

— Desmond Tutu

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

— Desmond Tutu

The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We…

— Desmond Tutu

Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying…

— Desmond Tutu

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no…

— Desmond Tutu

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long…

— Desmond Tutu

I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to…

— Desmond Tutu

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the…

— Desmond Tutu