Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
Chance for a New Beginning
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
If I go up to heaven and find a homophobic god, I will tell him I prefer the other place.
If you're neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.