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
- The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
- Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- 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.
- 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.
- In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
- In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- Without forgiveness, there's no future.
- Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Best Quotes
- The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
- I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.
- Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
- Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
- Pay attention to your inner voice. For it needs you to analyse what you are thinking about.
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
- Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
- A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
- You cannot mix sports with politics.
- Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.