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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say our prophets.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.
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A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
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Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
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Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
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True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.
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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
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The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.
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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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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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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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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
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