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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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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
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Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water and each drop counts, each one of us can do our little bit where we are. Those little bits can come together and almost overwhelm the world. Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
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Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
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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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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.
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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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God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said I want persons who therefore have freedom.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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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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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
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Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
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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.
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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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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.
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