Tony Campolo Quotes

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

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.

I've got some repenting to do. I doubt, however, that those who have wedded Christianity with laissez-faire capitalism will see things this way. I can just hear them saying, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.

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.

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

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

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.

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

Don't be satisfied with just pumping blood.

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that’s my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.

Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

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.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

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

That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person.

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!

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect on Scriptures and the more I sense how God thrills to the adoration He receives from all that He has created, the more I realize He has given us the awesome responsibility of caring for His creation so that it can go on praising Him until the end of time.

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.

What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

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.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle...Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.

I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.