Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 21

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• God loved me before I actually was.

  Desmond Tutu

  God Love

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

  Desmond Tutu

  Real, Heaven, Hell

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

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  Thinking, People, Done

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.

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  Trying, Affair, Love Affair

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mom, Doe, Return

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Perception, Want

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• All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

  Desmond Tutu

  Taken, People, Want

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• Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Thinking, Differences

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• Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Faults, Christ

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

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  Running, Real, Long

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Thinking, Had Enough

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.

  Desmond Tutu

  Creating, Incredibles, Persons

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Temptation, Sin

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

  Desmond Tutu

  Trying, Red, Rags

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

  Desmond Tutu

  Catharsis, Purpose, Return

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

  Desmond Tutu

  Awful, Humans, Human Beings

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fun, Ridiculous, Life Is

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

  Desmond Tutu

  Exercise, Thinking, Wanted

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bad Day, Pride, Hands

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Home, Evil

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• Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Looks, Might

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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