Tony Campolo Quotes

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.
Tony Campolo

Change, Care, Everything

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.
Tony Campolo

Why, Poor, Reason

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
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Giving, Poor, Dead

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

Islam, Evil, Themselves

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.
Tony Campolo

Change, Job, Guilty

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
Tony Campolo

Happy, Die, Else

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.
Tony Campolo

Spiritual, Mind, Depression

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

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.
Tony Campolo

Political, Real, Problem

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.
Tony Campolo

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.
Tony Campolo

Time, Hard, Whole

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
Tony Campolo

Society, Cannot, Looking

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

Real, Place, Trouble

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.
Tony Campolo

Respect, Job, Poor

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

Strong, Political, Made

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
Tony Campolo

Work, Government, Care

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
Tony Campolo

Money, Hate, Serious

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

Depression, Face, Might

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.
Tony Campolo

Life, Time, America

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
Tony Campolo

Medical, Woman, Same

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
Tony Campolo

Marriage, God, Government

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.
Tony Campolo

Life, Women, Freedom

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.
Tony Campolo

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
Tony Campolo

Government, House, White

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
Tony Campolo

Powerful, Become, Voting

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Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: 1935

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