Tony Campolo Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.”

“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.”

“But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.”

“Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?”

“Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.”

“I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.”

“It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.”

“I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.”

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

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