Desmond Tutu Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Faults, Christ

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

• If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Jesus, Father

  Desmond Tutu, Mothobi Mutloatse, John Webster (1984). “Hope and suffering: sermons and speeches”, W.B. Eerdmans, 1984

• I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Christ, Lord

  "God's Mission in the World : An Ecumenical Christian Study Guide on Global Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals". 2006.

• The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Book, Finals

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

• You have to say, whatever it is that I say or do or think or teach must be something that will be consistent with who Jesus Christ was. So that is your ultimate litmus test, not that you've got specific words to say, whatever they may be saying. It is what is being said. They're consistent with the revelation of God that we encounter in Jesus.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Thinking, Tests

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