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, Sick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

God, Country, America

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

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.
Tony Campolo

Family, Forget, Forgive

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.
Tony Campolo

Leadership, True, Woman

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.
Tony Campolo

Faith, Moving, Matters

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

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

Strong, Political, Speak

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

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

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
Tony Campolo

Government, Social, Beginning

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

Help, Developing, Persons

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.
Tony Campolo

Him, Advice, Sure

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

America, Poor, Growing

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
Tony Campolo

Impossible, Against, Read

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

Good, America, Said

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Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: 1935

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