Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 7

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• It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

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  Inspirational, Girl, Powerful

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• This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

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  Lying, Mean, People

  "No Future Without Forgiveness". Book by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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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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• Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.

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  Mother, Kings, Successful

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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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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• I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

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  Wish, Shut Up, I Can

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

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  One Day, Wake Up

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• It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

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  Real, Europe, Injustice And Oppression

  University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

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• I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

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  Believe, Men, Should Have

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• Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

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  Wife, Old Testament, Figures

  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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• 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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• Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

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  People, Diversity, Made

  "In Africa, a step backward on human rights" by Desmond Tutu, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

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  Life, Artist, Order

  Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.48, Random House

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• In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

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  Sorry, Humility, Order

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

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  Christian, Children, Upset

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• The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

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  Who We Are

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• Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

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  Forgiveness, Existence, Humans

  "Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul". Book by Dalene Fuller Rogers and Harold G Koenig, 2002.

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• Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

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  Stupid, Men, Cycling

  "11 Pieces Of Wisdom From Desmond Tutu To Inspire Change Makers In 2017" by Brian Rusch, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2016.

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• I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

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  Girl, Commitment, Want

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• Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

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  Years, Knowing, People

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• If I diminish you, I diminish myself

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  Diminish, Ifs

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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… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Sunset

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• Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.

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  Running, Space, Trying

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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