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
- I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
- Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
- 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.
- God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
- Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
- 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.
- 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.
- Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Best Quotes
- Some love stories are good to be incomplete... Sometimes the story gets spoiled in the cycle of completion.
- As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
- When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure.
- If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
- We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
- Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
- My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.