We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
Desmond TutuReligion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Desmond TutuI don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
Desmond TutuGod says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.
Desmond TutuI 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