Quotes from Tony Campolo

Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ.

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.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

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

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

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.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?