Tony Campolo Quotes

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Tony Campolo

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : February 25, 1935

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.

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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

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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.

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

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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.

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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

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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.

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I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

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Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

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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.

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

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In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood.

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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

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Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.

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Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ.

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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.

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The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.

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Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.

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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

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

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