Quotes from Desmond Tutu
There can be no healing without truth.
- Desmond Tutu
God hopes that we are going to love God back.
- Desmond Tutu
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
- Desmond Tutu
The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
- Desmond Tutu
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.
- Desmond Tutu
The way God operates is on the basis of love.
- Desmond Tutu
Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
- Desmond Tutu
When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
- Desmond Tutu
God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
- Desmond Tutu
God loved me before I actually was.
- Desmond Tutu
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Desmond Tutu
Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"
- Desmond Tutu