God hopes that we are going to love God back. — Desmond Tutu

The way God operates is on the basis of love. — Desmond Tutu

Nothing is too much trouble for Love. — Desmond Tutu

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover. — Desmond Tutu

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation. — Desmond Tutu

God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God. — Desmond Tutu

Love is much more demanding than law. — Desmond Tutu

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness. — Desmond Tutu

Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received. — Desmond Tutu

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. — Desmond Tutu

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, ‘I love you. I care for you, enormously.’ And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation. — Desmond Tutu

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. — Desmond Tutu

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. — Desmond Tutu

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love. — Desmond Tutu

Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action. — Desmond Tutu

Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us. — Desmond Tutu

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity–or because of their sexual orientation. — Desmond Tutu

A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders. — Desmond Tutu

Your ordinary acts of hope and love point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. — Desmond Tutu

God loved me before I actually was. — Desmond Tutu

Without forgiveness, there is no future. — Desmond Tutu

You don’t think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere. — Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge. — Desmond Tutu

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles. — Desmond Tutu

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. — Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians. — Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew. — Desmond Tutu

Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God’s son. It’s an expensive thing in many ways. — Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin. — Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone. — Desmond Tutu

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It’s thoroughly realistic. It’s real political in the long run. — Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. — Desmond Tutu

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance. — Desmond Tutu

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past–not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us. — Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are. — Desmond Tutu

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations. — Desmond Tutu

We can only be human together. — Desmond Tutu

And every human being is precious. — Desmond Tutu

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share. — Desmond Tutu

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. — Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence. — Desmond Tutu

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human. — Desmond Tutu

Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick. — Desmond Tutu

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. — Desmond Tutu

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. — Desmond Tutu

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white. — Desmond Tutu

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too. — Desmond Tutu

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous. — Desmond Tutu

Human beings are fundamentally good. — Desmond Tutu

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. — Desmond Tutu

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous. — Desmond Tutu

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity. — Desmond Tutu

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings. — Desmond Tutu

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. — Desmond Tutu

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy. — Desmond Tutu

We need other human beings in order to be human. — Desmond Tutu

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you. — Desmond Tutu

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth. — Desmond Tutu

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. — Desmond Tutu

A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships. — Desmond Tutu

We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom. — Desmond Tutu

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. — Desmond Tutu

If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone’s priority. Let’s make all children visible and let’s give every child a birthday! — Desmond Tutu

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don’t care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail. — Desmond Tutu

A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly. — Desmond Tutu

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom. — Desmond Tutu

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for. — Desmond Tutu

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others. — Desmond Tutu

If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won’t experience a liberation that comes from forgiving. — Desmond Tutu

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. — Desmond Tutu

Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me. — Desmond Tutu

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath. — Desmond Tutu

When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health. — Desmond Tutu

Each one of us can be an oasis of peace. — Desmond Tutu

Anything war can do, peace can do better. — Desmond Tutu

The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter–reprisal. And it just goes on and on. — Desmond Tutu

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Desmond Tutu

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. — Desmond Tutu

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls. — Desmond Tutu

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of. — Desmond Tutu

Peace without justice is an impossibility. — Desmond Tutu

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment. — Desmond Tutu

We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice. — Desmond Tutu

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. — Desmond Tutu

There is no justice in killing in the name of justice. — Desmond Tutu

That’s the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail. — Desmond Tutu

There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse. — Desmond Tutu

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility. — Desmond Tutu

Restorative justice says ‘No, the offense affected a relationship’ and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship. — Desmond Tutu

True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute. — Desmond Tutu

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice. — Desmond Tutu

As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life. — Desmond Tutu

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun. — Desmond Tutu

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. — Desmond Tutu

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else. — Desmond Tutu

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice. — Desmond Tutu

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life. — Desmond Tutu

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold. — Desmond Tutu

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here–our love will go on for generations. — Desmond Tutu

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven’t had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives. — Desmond Tutu

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful. — Desmond Tutu

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that. — Desmond Tutu

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity — Desmond Tutu

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life. — Desmond Tutu

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths. — Desmond Tutu

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don’t become false idols and threaten to rule our lives. — Desmond Tutu

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No. — Desmond Tutu