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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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No future without forgiveness.
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God loved me before I actually was.
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.
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We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.
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When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
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God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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