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

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
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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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Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?
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Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
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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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Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
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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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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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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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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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Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.
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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.
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The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.
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Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.
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He saved us in order that He might begin to transform His world into the kind of world that He willed for it to be when He created it. … When Jesus saved us, He saved us to be agents of a great revolution, the end of which will come when the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdom of our God
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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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I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.
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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've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix.
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