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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.
Tony Campolo
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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.
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I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.
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Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.
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I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
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If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.
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Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
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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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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.
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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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If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
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A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.
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There's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, there's something wrong with keeping it.
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The kingdom of God is a glorious and gigantic party!
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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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Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.
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That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.
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Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God, which seem at odds with their own spiritual traditions but have much in common with each other.
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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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The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.
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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?
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