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

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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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.
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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
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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.
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I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.
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Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.
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Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.
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Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.
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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
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A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.
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Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.
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I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.
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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.
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I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
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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?
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I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
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I'm not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians.
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Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.
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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.
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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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