You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of… — 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
“Cultivate your forgiveness with your friends, with your family, with strangers, and with yourself. Remind yourself that every person you encounter carries… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — 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
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 you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who… — 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 Image
