People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly… — 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
The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at… — 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
You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!'… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern… — 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
