Quotes from Desmond Tutu
God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.
- Desmond Tutu
God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.
- Desmond Tutu
Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
- Desmond Tutu
God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.
- Desmond Tutu
Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
- Desmond Tutu
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
- Desmond Tutu
People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.
- Desmond Tutu
God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
- Desmond Tutu
Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
- Desmond Tutu
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
- Desmond Tutu
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
- Desmond Tutu
We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
- Desmond Tutu