Desmond Tutu Quotes

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Inevitably, considerations of God in what otherwise intend to be mass entertainments come down to the same thing they come down to in any context, which is a consideration of humanity.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

The burden of proof is on those who don't believe that "Genesis" was right, and there was a creation, and that Creator is still involved.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

I believe that God created the Earth. I wasn't there, I don't know how long it took. I don't know how he did it exactly.

Time is not of man; it is of God.

When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over again.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.