Tony Campolo Quotes

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  • A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

  • It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

  • Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

  • I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

  • In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

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    Tony Campolo (2008). “Letters To A Young Evangelical”, p.67, Basic Books
  • Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.

    "The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.
  • In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

  • I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person

  • If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead of the care of persons, is foolish.

  • Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.

    "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.
  • I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

    Tony Campolo (2011). “Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics”, p.67, Baker Books
  • As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

  • I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.

  • It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

  • The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

  • In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

  • Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country, George Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, these were not conservatives; these were the radicals of the time. In fact, conservatives always look back on people who they despised and make them into heroes. If you were to listen to the religious right today, they would make you believe that Martin Luther King was one of their flock. In reality, they hated him and did everything they could to destroy him.

    "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.
  • It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

    "The Changing Politics of Evangelicals" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.
  • I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

  • Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

    "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.
  • There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

  • A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.

    Tony Campolo (2000). “Let Me Tell You a Story: Life Lessons from Unexpected Places and Unlikely People”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.

  • When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

  • I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

  • The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

  • The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.

  • Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God, which seem at odds with their own spiritual traditions but have much in common with each other.

    Tony Campolo (2005). “Speaking My Mind: The Radical Evangelical Prophet Tackles the Tough Issues Christians Are Afraid to Face”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

    "Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.
  • I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.

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