But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Quote by Desmond Tutu
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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
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Desmond Tutu Quotes
- Because forgiveness is like this: 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.
- In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
- Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
- I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
- You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
- In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
- Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
Best Quotes
- As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
- Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
- I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.
- This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
- I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
- Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
- I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
- There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.
- The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.