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Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 11

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

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

Violence, Knows

Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com.

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

Peace, Gun, Missing

Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.

Past, People, Trying

Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

Lying, Mean, People

"No Future Without Forgiveness". Book by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."

Children, Looks, Imagine

Source: sojo.net

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

Abusive Relationship, Easy, Ends

Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as a sundowner. Except, of course, the sun never goes down there. Oh, man, this heaven is going to take some getting used to.

Men, Heaven, Coke

God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'

Knows

Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.

Beautiful, Blessing, Laughing

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

People, Political, Saws

Source: www.pbs.org

Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.

Children, Wipe, Succeed

Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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.

Christian, Believe, Oneness

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

Punishment, Justice, Retributive Justice

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

Giving Up, Real, Love You

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.

People, Leader, Risk

Let girls be girls and not brides

Girl, Brides

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Beautiful, World, Awful

Source: www.egonzehnder.com

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

Mean, Blue, Sky

Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.

Snuff, Splits, Next

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

The world needs a revolution led by women.

Needs, World, Revolution

The David A. Morse Lecture: A Conversation with Desmond Tutu, www.cfr.org. March 8, 2010.

When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

White, Diversity, Justice

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

Dream, Children, Play

Source: stuart-coleman.com

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

Purpose, Life Is, Heartbeat

Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.75, Random House

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

Nice, Ubuntu, Want

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

Eye, Past, Doors

Report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission foreword (1998)

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