Considering Quote by Desmond Tutu

“One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.” quote by Desmond Tutu — Download Open image

“One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.”

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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 you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who…

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“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.”

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