Quotes by Tony Campolo

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.

— Tony Campolo

Courage

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

Wisdom

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.

— Tony Campolo

Courage

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Happiness

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

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

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

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

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.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

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.

— Tony Campolo

Love

I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

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.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

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.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

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.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

— Tony Campolo

Wisdom