Desmond Tutu Quotes
Do your little bit of good where you are it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.
We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.
