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

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
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Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.
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I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say our prophets.
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People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights. No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
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Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians.
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
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God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said I want persons who therefore have freedom.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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