Desmond Tutu Quotes

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

First of all, I am a man of God, and God is love. My expressions are always going to be about love.

I want people to know my truth. Unconditional love of God and each other.

Charity never faileth.

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.

Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.