Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Quote by Desmond Tutu
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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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Desmond Tutu Quotes
- 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.
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
- When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Best Quotes
- Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
- Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
- If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
- Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
- In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
- Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
- True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.