Desmond Tutu: Trending quotes

“We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.”

“This family has no outsiders. Everyone is an insider.”

“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?"”

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.”

“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.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

“God is not a diversion.”

“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”

“There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.”

“Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.”

“Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.”

“Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.”

“We learn from history that we don't learn from history!”

“Do a little bit of good wherever you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”

“If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.”

“Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.”

“A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.”

“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.”

“It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.”