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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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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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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We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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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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As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
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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 give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.
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Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
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