Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 21

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• Forgiving is good for your health.

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  Forgiving

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I have a lot of time for young people.

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  People, Young

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

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  People, Forever, Likes

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

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  Alive, Able, Individual

  Source: sojo.net

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• Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

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  Dust, People, Humanity

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• Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

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  Deep Love, Fire, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!

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  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  Source: sojo.net

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• [Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

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  Taken, Air, Pope

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• The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

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  Thinking, America, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

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  Our World, Moments, Pope

  Source: sojo.net

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• I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.

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  Land, Trying, Want

  Source: sojo.net

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• I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'" Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.

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  Inspiration, Passion, Justice

  Source: sojo.net

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• I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

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  Country, Military, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

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  Long, Members, Our Family

  Source: sojo.net

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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.

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  Fun, Ridiculous, Life Is

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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

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  Awful, Humans, Human Beings

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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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.

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  Catharsis, Purpose, Return

  Source: www.egonzehnder.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.

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  Believe, Home, Evil

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

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  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.

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  Bad Day, Pride, Hands

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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

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  Mean, Looks, Might

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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