Desmond Tutu Quotes

Freedom is a choice. The grace of God abounds, and man is nonetheless free.

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.

First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts.

The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.