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
- In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
- 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.
- But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
- Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
- 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.
- 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.
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- Without forgiveness, there's no future.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.
- Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
- For every battle that you fight, remember your always a winner, do not release the rope, hold on tight.
- The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
- Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
- I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
- It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
- I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.