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Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 6

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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

God, Squash, People

"The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs, p. 255, 2004.

If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Running, Jesus, Father

Desmond Tutu, Mothobi Mutloatse, John Webster (1984). “Hope and suffering: sermons and speeches”, W.B. Eerdmans, 1984

I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

Race, Color, Visions Of The Future

Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

Climate, Earth, Defence

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 there are no outsiders - black, white, yellow, short, tall, young, old, rich, poor, gay, lesbian, straight - everyone. All belong. And God says, I have only you to help me realize my dream. Help me.

Dream, Gay, Hands

When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.

Pain, Numbness, Guilt

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

Past, Long, Faces

Source: www.egonzehnder.com

When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril.

Self, Law, People

Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

Love is much more demanding than law.

Love, Marriage, Love Is

Desmond Tutu (2012). “No Future Without Forgiveness”, p.75, Random House

Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God to know that stealing is bad. All of God's children and their different faiths help to realize the immensity of God. No faith contains the whole truth about God. And certainly Christians don't have a corner on God. All of us belong to God.

Christian, Children, Hate

Source: www.drfranklipman.com

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

Blood, Digestion, Pressure

""Truth and reconciliation"". BBC Focus on Africa magazine, January-March 2000.

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.

Family, Dream, Compassion

The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

Jesus, Book, Finals

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

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

Support, Sides, Injustice

Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Family, Enemy, Outsiders

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Dr. Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Suffering, Spirituality, Transformation

Source: www.drfranklipman.com

There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

Christian, Caring, People

Source: theislamicmonthly.com

Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.

Justice, Heal, Offense

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.

Feelings, Insecurity, Arrogance

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.

Beautiful, Sunset, Sea

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

Sorry, Humility, Order

Source: www.egonzehnder.com

We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.

Made

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

People, Bed, Hungry

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

Inspirational, Girl, Powerful

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Soccer, Teamwork, Orchestra

Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.50, Random House

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