Quotes from Desmond Tutu
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
- Desmond Tutu
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
- Desmond Tutu
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma.
- Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
- Desmond Tutu
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
- 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?
- Desmond Tutu
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
- 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.
- Desmond Tutu
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
- Desmond Tutu
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
- Desmond Tutu
You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.
- Desmond Tutu
God is on the side of the oppressed.
- Desmond Tutu