Religion Quotes by Desmond Tutu

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

— Desmond Tutu

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

— Desmond Tutu

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

— Desmond Tutu

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

— Desmond Tutu

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

— Desmond Tutu

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

— Desmond Tutu

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the…

— Desmond Tutu

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with…

— Desmond Tutu

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed…

— Desmond Tutu

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and…

— Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because…

— Desmond Tutu

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the…

— Desmond Tutu

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

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical,…

— Desmond Tutu

If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial…

— Desmond Tutu

Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part…

— Desmond Tutu

I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that…

— Desmond Tutu

Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and…

— Desmond Tutu

There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam,…

— Desmond Tutu

We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of…

— Desmond Tutu

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much…

— Desmond Tutu

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender,…

— Desmond Tutu

You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for…

— Desmond Tutu