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The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
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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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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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If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.
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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
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Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
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Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.
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I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, How would I have wanted to be treated?
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