Quote by Desmond Tutu
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had

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

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Gods love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. – Desmond Tutu

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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

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When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish. – Desmond Tutu

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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. – Alfred North Whitehead

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I dont think you need religion. – Terry Jones

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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as theres bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. – Karen Armstrong

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