Desmond Tutu Quotes About Jesus

Quotes about: Jesus

• When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, People, Political

  "God's Mission in the World: An Ecumenical Christian Study Guide on Global Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals". The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2006.

• Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Giving Up, Real

• In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Nice, Sheep

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.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

• 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

• 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.

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