Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart… — 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
Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of… — 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
We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. — 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
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — 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
