Author: Desmond Tutu

Quotes

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

- Desmond Tutu

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

- Desmond Tutu

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

- Desmond Tutu

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

- Desmond Tutu

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

- Desmond Tutu

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

- Desmond Tutu

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

- Desmond Tutu

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Desmond Tutu

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

- Desmond Tutu

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