Tony Campolo Quotes

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  Mixing politics and religion is like mixing ice cream and manure; it doesn’t affect the manure much, but it really messes up the ice cream.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Politics, Religion

  Tags in Manure, Really

• When you listen to Christian radio stations – and there are thousands of them now in the United States – and when you listen to Christian television networks – and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country – they are all politically right.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Political

• 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

  Topics in Country, Politics

  Tags in American

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crying, Die, Happy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terrible, Ought

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change

• 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

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in God

  Tags in Legal, Problem

• 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

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Real, Problem

• 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

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Republican

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Issues

• 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

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Republican

• So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Relationship, Social

• Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don’t think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Problem, Illegal

• 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.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in God

  Tags in World, Nation

• Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we’re dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, World

• 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.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Legislation

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

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in America, Country

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

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Minister

• 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.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsible, Believe

• I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

  Tony Campolo

  Topics in Justice

Tony Campolo (31)

Birth:	25th February, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Pastor, Preacher, Professor, Writer

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