Quotes from Tony Campolo

The kingdom of God is a glorious and gigantic party!

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

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

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

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

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

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

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

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

Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.

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.

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.

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

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

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.

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

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.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

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.

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

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

There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.