Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 6

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• 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.

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  Running, Jesus, Father

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

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

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  Climate, Earth, Defence

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• 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.

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  Dream, Gay, Hands

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

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  Ubuntu, Peaceful, World

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• 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.

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  Pain, Numbness, Guilt

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

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  Past, Long, Faces

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.

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  Men, Sake, Goodness

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• And every human being is precious.

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  Humans, Human Beings

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

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• 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.

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  Self, Law, People

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

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• Love is much more demanding than law.

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  Love, Marriage, Love Is

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

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• 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.

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  Christian, Children, Hate

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• 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.

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  Family, Dream, Compassion

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• One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

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  One Day, Wake Up

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

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  Blood, Digestion, Pressure

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

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• 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.

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  Feelings, Insecurity, Arrogance

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

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  Family, Enemy, Outsiders

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

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

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  Support, Sides, Injustice

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

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

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  Jesus, Book, Finals

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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Sunset, Sea

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• 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.

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  Christian, Caring, People

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• 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.

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  Suffering, Spirituality, Transformation

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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

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  Made

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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

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  People, Bed, Hungry

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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

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  Justice, Heal, Offense

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• 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.

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  Faith, Laughter, Caring

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