We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love 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
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
