Gods love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. – Desmond Tutu
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Desmond Tutu
If you want peace, you dont talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. – Desmond Tutu
In many ways, when youre a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. – Desmond Tutu
I dont think Ive ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB. – Desmond Tutu
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of Gods children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God. – Desmond Tutu
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANCs military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. – Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness, theres no future. – Desmond Tutu
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, youve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. – Desmond Tutu
In Gods family, there are no outsiders, no enemies. – Desmond Tutu
Gods 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
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And thats where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency. – Desmond Tutu
Isnt it amazing that we are all made in Gods image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? – 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. – Desmond Tutu
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. – Desmond Tutu
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. – Desmond Tutu
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. – Desmond Tutu
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. – Desmond Tutu
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. – Desmond Tutu
Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. – Desmond Tutu
