Everyone should take a peek in this one. Tutu is a radicalist, an extremist, a contrarian, but in the best ways possible. This book is hard to swallow and hard to deny. For once, a contrarian who isn't trying to convince you how bad everything is and how bad you are.

I really enjoyed this book. It felt like a breath of fresh air--so optimistic and hopeful. I would like Glenn Beck and the Fox News crews to read it--seriously. Desmond Tutu and daughter Mpho (both priests) share stories of all the goodness in the world they have seen while much of their lives was spent watching and living the horrors of apartheid in South Africa. There are a lot of little gems in this book--good stories about loving others, forgiveness, accepting ourselves, seeing ourselves and...

Who knows more about goodness than Desmond Tutu? We are all made for goodness, yet how many of us are taught how to practice it? What it really means, in difficult situations? Goodness is a skill, like singing. It doesn't come to you--you practice it, learn its properties, create conditions for goodness to do its work. Give it time to flower. Learn to see it, to work with it, to recognize it. Tutu and Mpho write eloquently about what they know of goodness, its power, and how to use it well. This...

This book it is indeed a great gift to the world, i wish everyone could read it.

Richard Branson 'This wonderful new book is a great gift to the world'Bono 'Our boss and his daughter remind us.......'Thich Nhat Hanh 'Thank you Archbishop Tutu for helping u come back home to our true natureMary Robinson 'Desmond Tutu has walked the talk all his lifeFour bits of inane rubbish on the flyleaf of my copy of this book; they are cliché ridden and say nothing of any significance. This unfortunately is how this book comes across too. I have nothing but admiration for Archbishop Tutu

The tone of this book is didactic to the extreme. It's painfully obvious that the author is an Anglican archbishop. It reads like a sermon, complete with constant repetitions of the points at hand, rather than elaborations that are more appropriate in writing. In my mind, it also takes a certain degree of arrogance to deem oneself worthy of putting words in God's mouth, and I found that off-putting. He writes with the confidence of a master of his subject, and to me, claiming mastery over spirit...

This small book has many excellent points and reminders. And if you feel God has abandoned you, the writings from God's veiwpoint will touch your heart. Perhaps the most interesting chapter for me was "Where Is God When We Suffer?" I had never considered that if God took an active role in our lives everytime we asked for something, the result would be chaos. Plus, as the book explains, we all think God should be on our side personally. How would we feel if God helped someone else and not us? Man...

Never has a book, besides the bible, made me want to break out every quote, every passage, every sentence to put on a note to remember, just why we are here on this earth. I'm only on chapter 3, and already I can tell just what an amazing book and author(s) this is. I want to savor every suculent, sacred word written. Soak it in, like holy water. I'm slowing down my reading of this, as I would poetry, so I can enjoy and relish how great God is, and how he works in our lives, if we choose to beli...

Desmond Tutu is known for promoting peace throughout the world and he has lived through apartheid-stricken South Africa. What better authority could there be to help us regular folk see the goodness in others? If Tutu can find goodness in some of the most heinous people, he can help the average person forgive people who do us harm regularly and either consciously or unconsciously.Tutu makes arguments of why God allows sin to exist and how people have free will to choose their own paths in life.

"God holds out an invitation to us - an invitation to turn away from the anxious striving that has turned stress into a status symbol." Love this book, and it came at just the right time for me. Desmond Tutu and his daughter Mpho write that we humans are designed for goodness, that we can stop trying so hard to "be good" because at our core we already are good. We can live joyfully in the knowledge that we are loved unconditionally, choosing to do right not to convince God to let us into heaven,...

Interesting read and optimistic view of people refreshing, as opposed to the often religious view of man's depravity. Amazing to be the view of one who has so much cruelty.

If you are tired of all the negativity of today, the Bible-thumping preachers haranguing about the evils of men, and feeling hopeless, this is the book for you. I guarantee you will think a lot about your beliefs, how you might react to the negativity of others, and what exactly you should do to make the world a better place. It is full of love and affirmation.I'm not normally one to read for inspiration and I'm not sure why. Almost every time some well-meaning friend recommends a book for my ed...

This is a sweet book that reminds of us our divinity and purpose and goodness. We were created by God, in His image, and we are “very good.” We don’t have to prove our goodness, we just need to remember who we are. God loves us. He waits for us. He searches after us. But we are free to choose. I particularly appreciated the words about the importance of prayer and relying on God – seeking His will. With so much evil and with so many other distractions in life and the world it is nice to be remin...

Made for Goodness provided just the encouragement I needed this month. Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu invite us to “let go of the illusion of our own omniscience, let go of the accomplishment tally, and live a surrendered life.” I highly recommend this book, full of reminders and helpful insights on living with God-consciousness. Both authors are priests in the Anglican tradition, but this book is suitable for readers of all faith traditions.Read my full review on my blog light to read by.

I loved this book. The message: we are inherently good in the eyes of God. So, we don't have to prove - or earn - our "goodness." Instead, we should live FROM that goodness.Archbishop Desmond Tutu & his daughter Mpho Tutu write, "Goodness is not the coin with which we anxiously pay for God's love. Our goodness is, rather, the recongition we offer and the thanks we return for the gifts and the love already given us... It is on our makeup that, having been given, we want to give back... I know th

Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference is an extraordinary and inspiring account by Archbishop Tutu & Mpho Tutu. This book creates a much needed dialogue about God's love, compassion, and our interconnectedness with each other. I love when Tutu proclaims, "my humanity is bound up with your humanity." I believe when we realize that our humanity is interconnected with others, we make a conscious choice to realize that all of our actions either have a positive or negative impact o...

Desmond Tutu and his daughter explain their hope in humanity. Despite seeing the horror of sin, hatred and violence first hand in apartheid South Africa, these two remind the reader that individuals are already loved and accepted by God.Why I started this book: It was the shortest book left on my list for this year.Why I finished it: It's nice to be reminded that we need to spend more time "being" good than "doing" good. I wrote down several quotes that I will be pondering this weekend.

"God holds out an invitation to us - an invitation to turn away from the anxious striving that has turned stress into a status symbol." In the prolouge to this book, the authors very clearly mention that one way to "be" what we are made for is to just simply BE. That to cure this sickness of TRYING to be good, we need to give up stress as a status symbol in our society and simply BE. This is reiterated through different themes; and I was happy to hear it. I think this is a reminder I needed. Goo...

Sure, this book may not be flawlessly written, but it is still deserving of five stars. ALthough Archbishop Tutu and I may disagree on some minor, doctrinal points, I can't help but agree 100% with the premise of this book. Archbishop Tutu and his daughter have created a book that makes one believe in the goodness in all of us. It is impossible to read this book and not feel inspired to try a little bit harder to show love for God by showing love to all of his children and creations. Even for m

I thought this was a really wonderful, uplifting book. It departs from the common Christian "you're an unworthy sinner" reprimand and opens us up to the idea that God loves us because God made us, that God rejoices in all of us and loves us for who we are and the immense potential for good that is in all of us. I personally can relate to this idea much better than the idea that I'm a sinner unworthy of God's love. I think that when someone feels like a better person, they are more likely to be a...