Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Interpretation
Every small act of love and hope highlights the immense value of human life.
Desmond Tutu emphasizes that even the simplest expressions of love and hope serve as a testament to the profound significance of every individual. He suggests that these ordinary actions reflect an extraordinary truth about human worth, underscoring the idea that each life carries inherent value that cannot be measured.
In practice
Using this quote during a speech at a charity event can highlight the importance of every contribution made to help others.
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane. But I got a blank space baby, and I'll write your name.
There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it
And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.
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