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I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
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Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
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Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
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God is not a diversion.
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Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.
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You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!
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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
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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.
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The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral
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Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say Oh yes, I violate human rights. They all claim oh no, we respect human rights even when they are doing the most egregious things.
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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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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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