Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Brother, Children

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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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• The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

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  Family, Oneness, Humans

  "Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

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  Grace, Dignity, Get Up

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (1997). “The essential Desmond Tutu”, David Philip Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  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.

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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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• 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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• Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

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  Peace, War, Gun

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
  
  [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

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  Voice, Addresses, Foundation

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• 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.

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  Brother, War, Views

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

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• 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.

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  Reading, Home, Writing

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

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• 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.

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  Prayer, People, Able

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

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