Desmond Tutu

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"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."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you."

"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."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

"Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime."

"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."

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."