--- title: "6 Extraordinary Quotes By Desmond Tutu" description: "6 Extraordinary quotes by Desmond Tutu. Plus more from Desmond Tutu and more Extraordinary sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f91/desmond-tutu-442_bread_we-have-an-extraordinary-god-god-is-a-mi_173654.jpg" --- > [We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/we-have-an-extraordinary-god-god-is-a-mighty-god-but-this-god-needs/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f91/desmond-tutu-442_bread_we-have-an-extraordinary-god-god-is-a-mi_173654.jpg) > [We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/we-were-an-extraordinary-paradox-we-are-finite-creatures-made-for-the/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77b/desmond-tutu-442_creatures_we-were-an-extraordinary-paradox-we-are_638948.jpg) > [The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/the-way-sometimes-we-preach-we-make-out-that-god-is-waiting-eagerly/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e57/desmond-tutu-442_extraordinary_the-way-sometimes-we-preach-we-make-out_772270.jpg) > [Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/children-are-a-wonderful-gift-they-have-an-extraordinary-capacity-to/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2d/desmond-tutu-442_capacity_children-are-a-wonderful-gift-they-have_901137.jpg) > [Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/your-ordinary-acts-of-love-and-hope-point-to-the-extraordinary/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/desmond-tutu-442_acts-of-love_your-ordinary-acts-of-love-and-hope-poin_1611110.jpg) > [As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/as-human-beings-we-have-the-most-extraordinary-capacity-for-evil-we/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3f/desmond-tutu-442_atrocities_as-human-beings-we-have-the-most-extraor_1660104.jpg) ## Other authors on Extraordinary ## More by Desmond Tutu > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/each-of-us-is-precious-to-god-because-each-of-us-has-their-name/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/freedom-and-liberty-lose-out-by-default-because-good-people-are-not/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/we-shall-be-free-only-together-black-and-white-we-shall-survive-only/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/many-people-would-be-surprised-that-in-fact-i-m-quite-shy/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/too-many-people-think-that-reconciliation-means-you-soft-pedal/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/our-christian-faith-is-actually-very-subversive-of-the-conventional/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/every-situation-of-justice-is-an-occasion-where-someone-is-being/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/race-should-not-be-used-to-claim-privileges-and-rights-for-one-group/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/people-are-able-to-justify-immense-cruelty-and-say-that-it-is/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/south-africa-so-utterly-improbably-is-a-beacon-of-hope-in-a-dark-and/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/i-don-t-often-want-to-speak-i-try-to-be-a-reasonable-person-and-to-be/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [“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://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/child-of-god-known-by-name-and-whose-very-hairs-are-numbered-praise/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/to-remain-neutral-in-situations-of-injustice-is-to-be-complicit-in/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 would disintegrate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/it-s-a-fantastic-thing-that-from-moment-to-the-next-moment-if-god/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) > [Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/once-lost-trust-can-only-be-regained-if-we-are-as-good-as-our-word/) [Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/extraordinary/desmond-tutu/#itemlist", "name": "6 Extraordinary Quotes By Desmond Tutu", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We have an extraordinary God. 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