Desmond Tutu Want Quotations

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.