Tony Campolo

“Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'”

“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.”

“I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.”

“Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.”

“It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.”

“In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.”

“Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.”

“If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.”

“Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.”

“When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.”

“I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.”

“When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.”

“In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood.”

“I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.”

“Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.”

“An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.”

“My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.”