Hope is being able to see that there is light desp... -Desmond Tutu

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

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Desmond Tutu is a South African Anglican bishop and social rights activist who played a significant role in the fight against apartheid in South Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in promoting equality and justice in his country.

Desmond Tutu Quotes to Explore

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....
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world....
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion....
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low....
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next....
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by rac...
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?...
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....
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them....

Hope Quotes to Explore

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy....
I write about humility, because it's something I hope I one day actually possess....
I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause....
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union be...
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial....
I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide posi...
There are certain things that people love to do, and they can't really explain it. That's me and football. The game gives me hope. It lets me be mysel...
In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has ...
It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, wi...
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to...