Desmond Tutu Quotes

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

I've said all along that God is in control.

God does not play dice.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Where it all will end, knows God.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.'

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.