Desmond Tutu Quotes About Brothers

Quotes about: Brothers

• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

• Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, Egypt, World

  "As it happened: Egypt's new era". "Saturday Morning News" with Jessica Ellis, edition.cnn.com. February 12, 2011.

• Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Brother, Children

• To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, Law, Humanity

  Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rev Mpho Tutu (2014). “The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, War, Views

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

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