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There's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, there's something wrong with keeping it.

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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Philadelphia
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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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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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Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
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It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
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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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One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.
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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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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
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The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
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Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.
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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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Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle...Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?
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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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So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
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