Desmond Tutu Quotations..

• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
  Desmond Tutu # Choice, Family, God Quotes
• When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
  Desmond Tutu # Advice, Blame Quotes
• I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
  Desmond Tutu # Leadership, Nature Quotes
• I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.
  Desmond Tutu # God, Great, Creative, Argument, Religion Quotes
• We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
  Desmond Tutu # God, Spiritual, Surprise, Sin Quotes
• I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
  Desmond Tutu # Interesting, Compassion Quotes
• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
  Desmond Tutu # Racist, Human Rights Quotes
• I never doubted that ultimately we were going to be free, because ultimately, I knew there was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
  Desmond Tutu # Freedom, Inspirational, Truth, Encouragement, Death, Lies, Doubt, Life Quotes
• So people actually, if they want to know, "What is God like?" they would have to look at you and me and see us as being compassionate, because God is compassionate, as being loving, because God is loving.
  Desmond Tutu # Compassion, God, Inspirational, Love Quotes
• 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 # God, Bible, Spiritual, Religion Quotes
• The U.N. is as effective as its member states allow it to be.
  Desmond Tutu # Politics, Power Quotes

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