Tony Campolo People Quotations

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

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

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.

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.

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?

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

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

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

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.

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