To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
Desmond TutuA life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
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 TutuThose 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 TutuHave you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.
Desmond Tutu