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
To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they 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
When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even… — 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
