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 Copy Share Image
The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by… — 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
I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind… — 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
Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama."… — 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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