Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that… — 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 Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Image
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Image
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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