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While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
Tony Campolo
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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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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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Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
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The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.
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Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
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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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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
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