If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Desmond Tutu
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Good 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 loves us.
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
A person is a person through other persons.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.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.
Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
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