Quotes from Desmond Tutu

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

God is on the side of the oppressed.

The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'

Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.

Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.

I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."

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.

We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.

God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

God is not a diversion.

God 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.

God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

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.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.