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God Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
- Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are…
- In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
- Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we…
- If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
- I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.
- Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'
- We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven.…
- And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves,…
- Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race…
- God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
- God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there…
- I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white.…
- Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . .…
- And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and…
- There is no peace in South Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until…
- God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
- The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of…
- Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus…
- And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe…
- I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be…
- God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
- At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have…
- Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion…
- You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi