Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it. Desmond Tutu View this quote
Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn’t mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others. Desmond Tutu
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s 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
Peace involves inevitable righteousness, justice, fullness of life, participation in decision making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation. Desmond Tutu
Peace without justice is impossibility. Desmond Tutu
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. Desmond Tutu
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other. Desmond Tutu
People will use their religion to justify virtually anything. Desmond Tutu
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back. Desmond Tutu
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. Desmond Tutu
Somewhere deep inside us we seem to know that we are destined for something better than strife. Desmond Tutu
South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
October 7th, 1931
