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Desmond Tutu - From the Books category:
There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
This family has no outsiders. Everyone is an insider... All are to be held in the incredible embrace of the love that won't let us go. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Children category:
Children have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Education category:
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Fire category:
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter - you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Future category:
Without forgiveness, there's no future. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Goodness category:
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Hope category:
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Humanity category:
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Insecurity category:
The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Joy category:
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... (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Language category:
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Leadership category:
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Life category:
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Life category:
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Mentors category:
-interview in Vancouver, British Columbia: Tamara Taggart asks, "Who is your role model?"...
My mother. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Peace category:
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Religion category:
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. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Religion category:
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Renewal category:
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Silence category:
I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Solitude category:
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Suffering category:
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Symphony category:
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. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Truth category:
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Universe category:
The universe can take quite a while to deliver. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Vulnerability category:
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us... discover our soul. (Desmond Tutu)
Desmond Tutu - From the Windows category:
A room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. Forgiveness is like this. (Desmond Tutu)
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