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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
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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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.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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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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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.
Desmond Tutu
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
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Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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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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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
Desmond Tutu
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
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I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
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We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
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Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
Desmond Tutu
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human.
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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.
Desmond Tutu