The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Quote by Desmond Tutu
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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
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Desmond Tutu Quotes
- Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
- You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
- 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.
- 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.
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
- Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
- But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
- It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.