"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 - ...












You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
More Desmond Tutu quotes
"Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
"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.
"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 s...
"Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
"We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
"Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, ...
"The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
"God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.