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Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 7

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It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is

It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.

Eyebrows, Looks, Pits

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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 will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.

Faith, Laughter, Caring

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

Reading, Home, Writing

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu announces retirement from public life" by Xan Rice, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2010.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

Ubuntu, Peaceful, World

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 we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.

Brother, War, Views

"In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God". spectrummagazine.org. May 11, 2008.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Prayer, People, Able

"The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Wish, Shut Up, I Can

Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.

Mother, Kings, Successful

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

Real, Europe, Injustice And Oppression

University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

Wife, Old Testament, Figures

Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

Believe, Men, Should Have

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

Stupid, Men, Cycling

"11 Pieces Of Wisdom From Desmond Tutu To Inspire Change Makers In 2017" by Brian Rusch, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2016.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

People, Diversity, Made

"In Africa, a step backward on human rights" by Desmond Tutu, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2010.

Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.

Running, Space, Trying

Source: www.egonzehnder.com

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

Forgiveness, Existence, Humans

"Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul". Book by Dalene Fuller Rogers and Harold G Koenig, 2002.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

Who We Are

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Life, Artist, Order

Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.48, Random House

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

Girl, Commitment, Want

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… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

Beauty, Beautiful, Sunset

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.

Christian, Children, Upset

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

Insecurity, Different, Needs

Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.77, Random House

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

Years, Knowing, People

The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.

Fighting, Animal, Abuse

"Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail. Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.

Running, Teenage, Block

"An international campaign : Build moral pressure to end the occupation" by Desmond Tutu, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2002.

If I diminish you, I diminish myself

Diminish, Ifs

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