Tony Campolo

“In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.”

“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.”

“After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.”

“The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?”

“Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.”

“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.”

“What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.”

“Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.”

“I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.”

“Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.”

“I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.”

“We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.”

“Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.”

“I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.”

“I've got some repenting to do.”

“In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!”

“Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.”