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I don't preach a social gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral
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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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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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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.
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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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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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When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.
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People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
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I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.
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It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.
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Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
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It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
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I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
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